This is an analysis of Otherside by Henry Lawson.

Somewhere in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,
There’s a very pleasant country that I’ve dreamed of once or twice,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXc Xdeecc bbccXc ccbXcc ddffXc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 110010101010101 1001010101110111 011111101010101 101000101011001 001010111110100 110010101010011 101010101010101 101010001011111 101010101110101 10101111010101 101010101010101 111010101010011 101010101011101 101011100010101 101011100111101 101110101010101 111010101110100 110010101010011 101010101011101 111111101010001 101011101010101 101100111010001 101010101110101 110010101010011 111110101010101 111110101011101 101111101010101 111010011111111 111010101010100 111011101010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and, he, s, i