This is an analysis of A Little Mistake by Henry Lawson.
’Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum ‘trap’
On the edge of the Never-Never,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabacada Xece Xfgf ddcd hXcX ijXj bkbk hdfd iXbX Xjij cacaXdgdg
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011100111 101001010 1011110111 10101110 1010100101 01001010 1110111101 11011010 010100101 1111010 110101100101 11001001 10111011001 101101101 1011100101 10111011 110110101 1110011010 0101110111 101001010 10100110101 001011010 011110101 111111010 111101111 011011010 111010111 1010011010 110110101 01001010 010100111 111101010 1110110111 110010010 10100100111 11001010 0100100101 1010010010 111011111001 10010010 01001111011 0010011010 110111010011 110110010 10101111001 110000110 11001011001 110111010 11101001011 101011010 111101011101 110110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
s, ye, and
Anaphora
and, you