This is an analysis of A Bush Lawyer by Banjo Paterson.
When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon
The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbb cccc ddd bXbe eXX cfXf XcX cgXg hhX
- Stanza lengths: 7,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,
- Metre: 11000101010001 01010101010001 01000100110101 110101001011111 11000101111101 01000100010001 01010101110101 11110101111001 11010101111101 110011111010101 01000110110101 11110101110111 11000101010101 01010101110101 01110101110101 11101000101010100 01010101010001 1111111011110111 11111101111101 011101011101110 1010100010110111010 11010100110101 01010101010101 11101010000101000 11010101110101 110101011101000100 11110111011101 1010111010111001110 10101111010100101 11010101110101 1100111111001000 11010100111101 11011101010101 11111101110101 110110011111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, for, he, his
Anaphora
the, he
