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,…
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