This is an analysis of The Bill Of The Ages by Henry Lawson.

He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,
He never has done any good for himself, but was good to every man.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddbb eebb ffbb ffbb aabb eebbXbbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1110010011111110101 1101110010111001001 1101110010111111100 11111111111010101 11001010011111111 1101100101100001 111010011110011011 1111011011011111 111001101110100101 11100100100111101011 111111100110101001 1101011111111101 111011011011111011011 1110110110110011101 10100100101101100101 10101010101110100101 101010010111010111 11010001010100111 011010010111111111 0110100101111101 1011011010110100111 101111111110100101 10100101110111101010 101111110111100111 1001010101111111011 11101101111100101 101001011011111101 1110010010111111101 10101011111100111 1100111010011101 11101111100111111110 11101011011100101 1101001010101101 101101101011101101 11011001110101110 011011010110100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

he, and, good, never, has, or, you, of, to, s, all, man, can, in

Anaphora

he, if