This is an analysis of Jack Cornstalk In His Teens by Henry Lawson.

“If not in the Garden, he had in the ark,
To neither the beasts’ nor the passengers’ joy.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01001011001 01001101001 11001011001 010100001011 11101011001 11011011001 01001101001 111101001011 11001101001 111101001001 10100101111 01001001011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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