This is an analysis of The Bush Fire by Charles Harpur.
“’TIS nine o’clock:—to bed!” cried Egremont,
Who with his youthful household (for ’tis now…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdeff gchdXfibcj hkbgd ldficmkcneof faXkncgbme dcoffjdooX mdXeogfedfdeo fbdffnldcoeddcmhXofp fndbiXoacefeagqgofg kiXcefgmgfaqoddqbfdce dcXpfgkgefolokeh
- Stanza lengths: 8,10,5,12,10,10,13,20,19,21,16,
- Metre: 1110011100 1001011111 1101000101 0001010011 1011010101 1011010101 1101010011 1101100101 1111010101 1100011001 110101111 0101000101 01010101100 1101100011 10111000101 01010010101 10110010101 10010101010 1010110111 01010101110 1100110111 1001100001 0011011101 1111110001 0111011101 1101000111 1001010001 1100010101 01010100101 11001011010 1101111111 1100010101 010111110100 1100010011 111101 1011 0101111111 01010010110 011100101010 1101110101 01010011101 10110101101 1101010101 0101010111 10011000101 1111011111 0101100101 1111010101 0111000101 0101010111 10101011100 0101000111 1101010111 1011011101 11010000 101 01010101101 1110110100 010010101001 1011010101 01010001010 1101010011 0101011111 0111010011 1011010101 1101110101 1101110101 110 1110111 1101101101 1011010101 1011010111 0011110000 0101101111 01001001101 1011010101 1101011111 10101010001 0111011001 0101010011 0101110001 1111010011 1101110001 110000101110 00110001001 11010110011 0011010111 11010101 11 0101011111 1001011101 0101010001 11111001001 11001011101 01111101110 11110000101 1000110111 01110100100 0011001101 10001010101 11010001101 0111110111 1011000101 0101100101 11010101001 1111010101 1011011001 11010100010 0101010101 1101110110 0101110101 010010100101 01010110001 10110101010 1101110011 0001010001 0101111101 1101010111 10001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010111 1101111001 11000100101 1001011110 1100010001 1001010111 011001011001 1101010101 1101011001 11011010011 1101010001 10010110010 1111010101 01110101110 1101110101 10010101001 01010111010 0101010011 0100110101 1101010101 11010001010 1101010100 0001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 144
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, so, all
Anaphora
and, with
