This is an analysis of Golden Gully by Henry Lawson.
No one lives in Golden Gully, for its golden days are o’er,
And its clay shall never sully blucher-boots of diggers more,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddaabbddeeddffXXbbffggccbbccaabbXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 42,
- Metre: 111010101010111 101110101010101 101011101110101 101110101100101 111011101010001 011010101000101 001010101010101 101001100010101 101110101010101 001010100010101 1111110101010001 001011101010101 1010110101000111 111110101011111 101010101011111 1001010101100111 011010101010101 110110101010111 1011101010101101 101010101011101 101010101011111 101010101110101 110011101010101 101111101011101 111011001011111 101010100010101 1110101010101111 101010101000101 101011101010101 101010101010111 101010100011001 101010101110101 111010101110101 111110101110101 111011101010101 1110101011010101 10010101010100101 101010101010111 1001110101110111 101110101010101 111010101010111 101110101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
diggers, its, and, of, tales, you
Anadiplosis
there