This is an analysis of A Change Of Menu by Banjo Paterson.
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three,
It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb cdcdee fXfXdd egegbb ehehXX ijXjXX bibiXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1011100111 0011110101 10110010110011 101101001010 1110100111 011101101 100100101 101111011 00110110101 110100101 1010111101 11100110101 101111111 10101001101 10111110111 011100101 011110111 011110101 1011101101 0010101101 111011011 1010100101 1110111101 1110110101 011101111 011110111 111100101 111101111 1011011100101 11101101010 011100101 110110111 110010101 011100101 1011100101 101101101010 1011110101 0011100111 1110101101 1101101101 110111100 1101110011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, him, to, he
Anaphora
and, i
