This is an analysis of Outside by Henry Lawson.

I want to be lighting my pipe on deck,
With my baggage safe below—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXXcXdcdcbaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1100101111 0110101 1100100101 1010101 110010100 1010111 0010100101 10100100 1100101111 11001001 1100100101 10111001 110010101 10110101 010100111 0110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, i, want, to, be

Anaphora

i