This is an analysis of The Man From Iron Bark by Banjo Paterson.
It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town,
He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeecX ffgXcX aaggcX ddhhcX ggcccX hhXXcX bbXXcX
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01010100110101 11010111110111 1100111001111101 01110101110101 11111101100101 11110101110100 01011111110101 11011101110101 11010001111101 110111010110110 111111011101001 11111101010100 10110111010101 11011101111111 00010101010111 11010101010101 111101100110101 11010101110100 01110111110101 11010101110100 11010111110101 11011101010101 01010101010101 11010110010100 11011101110101 11011111110101 11010001110101 11111101110111 11011101111001 11010111010100 11010101010101 11010101110101 11010111110101 11010101110101 11010111010101 11010101010100 01011101100101 11010100110101 11110101111101 110101010101000 110111111010101 110111001110100 11110101010101 1101010110110001 11011101111101 11011101110101 11010111111001 11011101110100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, in, his, to
Anaphora
he, and
