This is an analysis of The Murrumbidgee Shearer by Banjo Paterson.
Come, all you jolly natives, and I'll relate to you
Some of my observations—adventures, too, a few.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXXX ccdd ddee ffcc ffgg bbaX hh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 1111010110101 1011010010101 1100101011011001 11111100110111 1101010110101 1010100111010 10110101010100 110010101100101 1110010111101 10100110110101 111101011111010 11011101101110 111101010101110 101010101111010 1110010111101 10011100010101 1111010110101 111101011101001 11010010100101 0111011111101 1101111010011 1101111111111 11111100111101 010001101010101 10101010001101 01001100110101 11000111111101 111110001101101 11110111100101 00100101100011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
i've, on, i, and, they, my
Anaphora
i've
