This is an analysis of At The Melting Of The Snow by Banjo Paterson.

There's a sunny Southern land,
And it's there that I would be…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXcDCXbXXXcdC ceceXcDC
  • Stanza lengths: 16,8,
  • Metre: 1010101 1011110 10111 0011 1010101 1011101 00110010 1010001 0011001 1010110 10111 1011 1011101 1010101 00110010 1010001 1010001 1010101 1010101 10100001 111111 1110111 00110010 1010001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

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