This is an analysis of Bill And Jim Fall Out by Henry Lawson.
Bill and Jim are mates no longer—they would scorn the name of mate—
Those two bushmen hate each other with a soul-consuming hate;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaa ccdd eXaa eeff ggaa hhdd aabb ffii
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111111101110101 111011100010101 111101101011100 101010101111111 1110111010100111 1011111111100100 111101011011101 111010101010101 101010101010001 111011101110111 111011111000101 111010100010101 111000111110111 101110101011101 111010101011101 101011100101101 11010100110111 11010101011101 101011101011011 111111100010111 11011101010111 1111010101001 101011011010111 110010101010101 11010101110101 101010101010101 11111010010101 101011101001101 111010101010111 1011001011100101 1101011111111 1111111010101 1110101010101001 111010101011111 111010100010101 101110101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
they, of, he, and, it, born
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
all
Anadiplosis
bill
