This is an analysis of Callaghan's Hotel by Henry Lawson.
There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co.,
And the yard the coaches stood in more than sixty years ago;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb aabb aabb ddbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101110101111111 101010101110001 101010101110101 10111101110001 1001111111110101 101111101010001 101111101011101 101011101110001 111000111010101 001010101010101 101110101110101 101110101110001 101110101011101 101010101010111 1011101011111001 111011101010001 111110100011111 111011101010101 1010111001110101 101001101110001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, same, old, of
Anaphora
and