This is an analysis of Amy Margaret's Five Year Old by William Allingham.

Amy Margaret's five years old,
Amy Margaret's hair is gold,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaabXXbbcccb
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 10100101 10100101 1010101 11010100 100001010000 01111100 11010101 11110100 01010101 01010101 11000111 01010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

amy

Anaphora

amy, a

Epiphora

margaret