This is an analysis of He Had So Much Work To Do by Henry Lawson.
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,
Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacX dddd eebb aaff ggcc ggbb aabb ffdd hhbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010101000100001 101011101100101 101111101010101 101010111111101 101011101010001 101111101110111 1110110101011100 11101010111110 111010110110101 11101011010001 101110111110011 001000110011101 111010101011101 1001100101111001 00110110111111 111010101111101 1001011101010101 111011101010101 111110100010111 11111101111001 1111101111101 111011100010100 101010101110111 111110101111101 111010101010111 101011101011101 111111101110101 111111101011101 111010101011111 111110100010101 101110101011111 111111100011111 101110101010101 111100101110010 101011101010101 111110101110101 11001011000100101 101011101111111 111011101110111 111000101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, jim, at, for, he, you, to, we
Anaphora
jim
Anadiplosis
scott
