This is an analysis of Ben Duggan by Henry Lawson.
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,
And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a man;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX dbbX eeaacX XbbX ffggcX aaaX hhiicX ibbX jjddcX bbbX bXkkcX bbbX
- Stanza lengths: 6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,6,4,
- Metre: 11011100110101 11110101110101 11011101010111 11110101110101 11110101110111 010101001011100 1101 1101 11011101 111100 11110111111101 11010101010101 11110111110111 11010101110101 11000101110111 11010100011100 1101 1101 11111101 111100 11110100010101 11010101110001 11110101011101 01111100011101 11010101110111 11011101111100 1101 0101 11011101 111100 110101011010101 11010101110101 10011101010101 11010101110101 11111111011101 11110101110100 0101 1101 010100101 111100 110101100011101 11010100001101 11011101110101 01010101010111 11010101110111 110100011100100 1101 1101 11011101 111100 111100111110101 11111101010011 111100010101001 11100101011101 11010101111101 11010100011100 1111 1101 01000101 100100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and, he
Anaphora
he, and
