This is an analysis of Bush Hay by Henry Lawson.
The stamp of Scotland is on his face,
But he sailed to the South a lad,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefE ghghfefE ciciXehEXgfdfgeaE
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
- Metre: 010100101 11100101 1111100111 10101111 1100101101 0011101 1011110111 00111111 011110111 00000100 1110110101 0011101 1100110111 1110101 1110101111 00111111 010100101 0100111 1111100101 1100101 111010111 1100101 1101110111 00111111 1110111101 11110101 0011100101 00110101 101001100101 110101 1110100111 00111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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