This is an analysis of My Father-In-Law And I by Henry Lawson.
MY father-in-law is a careworn man,
And a silent man is he;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaBcbdB acacdbdBXabaBcbdB
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 11001001001 1010101 11100111111 0101101 011100101 1100111 111110100 1100111 1100100101 10100111 11101001011 11110101 111111111 00100111 10111100100 1100111 1100100101 0010101 11011011111 0101101 1111110101 00101101 1111100100 1100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
he, we
Anaphora
my
Anadiplosis
he
