This is an analysis of Ben Boyd's Tower by Henry Lawson.
Ben Boyd's Tower is watching—
Watching o’er the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abAbBCdC ceee afAf ghgh BCiC ifdf Xbcb fjhjfcic
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Metre: 1110010 10101 1110010 1011 111101 1111010 1111111 11110 1110110 10101 101010 00101 1110010 10101 1110010 1010011 111011 10101 101111 10001 111101 1111010 11111101 11110 101101010 10101 1111011 00111 111010 10111 11011110 10101 110011 10001 111010 10101 0100011 101010 1111011 01110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
we, know
Anaphora
we
Epiphora
tower
Anadiplosis
watching