This is an analysis of The Ballad Of That P.N. by Banjo Paterson.
The shades of night had fallen at last,
When through the house a shadow passed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXeeffbbggddX aaeebbddX
- Stanza lengths: 20,9,
- Metre: 010111011 11010111 11100101 110101001 11011101 11001101 0111101 101101111 010 11110011 110110011 010101001 11010101 10010011 01111111 11010001 110011101 100110111 01010011 010 01111101 11010101 010111001 01010001 11010101 01000101 101111111 01111101 010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 29
Anaphora
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