This is an analysis of Ye Wearie Wayfarer by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Hark! the bells of distant cattle
Waft across the range,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXdadXccc efefghgh fifiXhXhieXeaeae
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,16,
- Metre: 10101010 10101 10101010 10111 10100110 101001 11101110 11101 1110101 10101 11101010 11001 11101010 10101 10101010 00101 10001010 101001 10001010 11111 10101110 10111 00101010 00111 100111010 10011 1011010 10101 10001010 00101 01101110 10101 10111111 11101 101001010 10101 10101110 11111 10001010 10011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 40
Anaphora
whisper
