This is an analysis of Sydney-Side by Henry Lawson.
Where's the steward?—Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do—
I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbb ccdX bbbb eeff gghh ddbbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 101011101110101 111011101010101 101010101011101 1111110101010101 101011110111101 10110101011111 101001101010101 111010101010101 111010100011101 111110101010101 111110100010101 101110100100010 101010101010111 101010101010101 101010101110111 101111101010101 101011101010111 101010101011001 101110100010111 101010101010001 10101101111101 101011100010101 111100101111111 101111101000111 100010100010101 101010101110111 111010101110101 111111101010101 101010101110101 001110101010001 100110101010101 101110101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
i, of, and, in, for, we, t, siders, other
Anaphora
and
