This is an analysis of Past Carin' by Henry Lawson.
Now up and down the siding brown
The great black crows are flyin',…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXCXXXCX dadadXdXXXdX eXeXcXBXXXBX dXdXdXdXXXbX fXfXfXfXXXfX
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,12,12,
- Metre: 11110101 011111 11010111 010101 01110001 0111010 10111111 1111110 110110 1101110 10111111 1111110 11110101 1101010 111101011 11001010 11110111 1100110 11010111 1100110 1100110 1101110 11011101 1100110 11110111 010101 11010101 111111 01110111 0101100 11111101 1110110 1100110 110110 11111101 1110110 11011101 1101010 11111111 1111110 11000111 1111110 11011111 1100110 1100110 1101110 01110101 1100110 11111101 1111110 11010111 0111010 11110101 1111010 11110100 0111010 110110 1101100 11110100 0111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
past, carin', and, through
Anaphora
the, past, through
Epiphora
carin'
