This is an analysis of Outside by Henry Lawson.
I want to be lighting my pipe on deck,
With my baggage safe below—…
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