This is an analysis of On The Night Train by Henry Lawson.
Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by?
Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabX cccbX bbbbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 111011110011101 101111101011111 101010101010101 111011101111111 10010111110111110 011010111010001 101110101110111 111010100011001 011010101111111 10010111110111110 001010101010111 011011100011101 1011011101010111 11111111011101 0010111110111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, bush
