This is an analysis of Harry Stephens by Henry Lawson.

So the world of odds and evens ceased to trouble Harry Stephens,
and the niggard road no longer echoes to his lonely tread.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 1010111010101010 101011101000101 1010101100101011101010101000101 1011001111101011101000101110111 10101100101000101111101000101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

and, him

Anaphora

and