This is an analysis of A Dan Yell by Henry Lawson.
I WISH I’d never gone to board
In that house where I met…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dadXecec fXffacac egegabab ahahbcbc bibiacac
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111110101 011111 01010001 111111 11111111 010111 11010011 110101 01011101 110101 11011101 110100 11010001 111100 11011101 110101 11110101 11110010 11011111 111111 11010111 111111 11100101 110101 01010101 110111 01011101 110101 01010101 010101 01110111 110101 01100101 100111 01011101 001101 11011101 110101 11010101 110101 11010111 011001 11000101 011111 11010111 1111001 11010111 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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