This is an analysis of Jimmy Dooley's Army by Banjo Paterson.
There's a dashin' sort of boy
Which they call his Party's Joy,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcbbcddc eFFAGGC hhXbbeaaXaacXeFFAGGC
- Stanza lengths: 12,7,20,
- Metre: 1010101 1110101 101111111011 1110101 0010101 111010101010 1011111 1010111 11110101010 1010111 1010101 111010101010 10 11111 110111 01001101011 1111101 0010101 01010101010 1110001 1110001 10110101000 1111111 10110001 010101011100 1011111 1100111 111111101110 1110111 1110101 11111101110 10 11111 110111 01001101011 1111101 0010101 01010101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 38
Anaphora
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