This is an analysis of Knockin' Around by Henry Lawson.
Weary old wife, with the bucket and cow,
‘How’s your son Jack? and where is he now?’…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddbb aaddbb bbXXcc
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,
- Metre: 1011001011 111111011 101111001 1001111001 101111011 1111011001 1001001001 1101101011 1001011011 1001001101 1001011001 1011011001 1011101001 1011011011 1001001001 1011111101 1001101011 10011011001 1001101001 1001001101 1001011001 1011011001 110101111 1011111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, in, maybe
Anaphora
maybe