This is an analysis of Broken Axletree by Henry Lawson.
On the Track of Grand Endeavour, on the long track out to Bourke,
Past the Turn-Back, and past Howlong, and the pub at Sudden Jerk,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccbX ddbX eeXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
- Metre: 101010101011101 101111101011101 111011111011101 10111110101010 101111101111101 101100101110111 101010101010101 11111110001010 101110101010111 101111101111111 101110101110111 10111010101010 101011101011101 101010101011101 111001101110100 10111010011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, past, we, that
Anaphora
past, and