This is an analysis of He’s Gone To England For A Wife by Henry Lawson.
HE’S GONE to England for a wife
Among the ladies there;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbadcd eaeafgfg chchgdgd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11110111 010001 11010101 111101 11111111 111101 11110111 111101 11110101 110101 11110111 011101 11111101 010001 11110101 011101 11000101 010101 11010101 010111 10110101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
he, and
Anaphora
he, and
