This is an analysis of The Magpie Lark by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
By lagoons and reedy places,
Where the little river races…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccdddX bbeeXaaaffdX ddddaXXXggdX
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,
- Metre: 10111010 10101010 1010101 1010101 100101110 111001110 10111010 10101110 1011101 10010101 11110111 101010100 101111010 00101110 1101101 01011101 111101010 11101010 0010101 1111101 11110101 1011111 1010101 101010100 1001111 1110101 1110111 1001111 10011001 11111111 1011101 1010101 1110001 11011111 11111101 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
dance, our, and
