This is an analysis of I’m An Older Man Than You by Henry Lawson.
WHEN you’ve managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sort
And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb aabb Xabb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111000101011001 111011101111111 111111101010111 110110111110111 111010100110111 011111101010101 111010011010111 001111101110111 1111001111010111 111010111111101 111111101000111 111100101110111 1110101001100100 101011101011001 1010011101110101 111010101110111 001110101111101 011110101011001 101011101001111 111110101110111 111011101011101 101110101010101 001010101111111 111010101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
you, and, your, with, not, when, however, of
Anaphora
be