This is an analysis of A Mixed Battle Song by Henry Lawson.
Lo! the Boar’s tail is salted, and the Kangaroo’s exalted,
And his right eye is extinguished by a man-o’-warsman’s cap;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbdXaeefcXcggaXa XhehehdhXfhhh
- Stanza lengths: 20,13,
- Metre: 101101010101010 101100101011101 1010101010101010 111010101010101 10111011110101 101101010101 101010100011110 011110100010100 1011011111001011 0010101010101010 11101011100100010 1110111010101010 101010101011101 10110101011101010 111010011110110 1110001001101010 10110010 101000101010101 11010111010101000 101010100010101 11111011011101 101010101000101 0010111100111010 111110101111101 1111101001001010 100011101110001 1111111011011010 111010101110101 1010 1010 111011101011101 111010101110111 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
s, and, i, to, in, for
Anaphora
and, for
