This is an analysis of The Ballad Of The Carpet Bag by Banjo Paterson.
Ho! Darkies, don't you hear dose voters cryin'
Pack dat carpet bag!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XAXAbbbAXAXA cAcAdddA XAXA XAbAeeeA XAXA XAXAbbbA XAXA
- Stanza lengths: 12,8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Metre: 1101111101 11101 11100111111 11101 11101011110101 101111101001 10111101110001 11101 111010 10111 111001101110 11101 111101001010 11101 1011101001110 11101 1111010010011 1111111010101 11111101110111 11101 111010 10111 111001101110 11101 1110101111010 11101 111010111010 11101 11100111101 1011010010101 1011111111111 11101 111010 10111 111001101110 11101 110011111111 11101 111010110101 11101 11101011110101 1110101101011 1010101010101 11101 111010 10111 111001101110 11101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
you, must, pack, to, de
Anaphora
and, you
