This is an analysis of Kangaroo Power by Henry Lawson.
NOW, Yankee inventors can beat a retreat,
And German professors may take a back seat,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaaabCDB aabXeebCDB ffbgggbCDB
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
- Metre: 11001011001 11001011011 1110010010 101001001001 01001001011 01111011001 1110110110 11 11 1010110110 11001011011 11111001001 010110110 01011011011 11101011011 11101011011 110110110 11 11 1010110110 01101011001 11100101001 110110010 11101011011 11001011001 01101001011 110110110 11 11 1010110110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
it, and
Anaphora
sing, and
