This is an analysis of The Cambaroora Star by Henry Lawson.
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new
To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy little screw;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcdd Xeffeebb ggddddgg ffffggbX hhccccXb eeccXfaa eeggaadd eeddffbb XXbbgggX ccbXiiXX ddaaccdd jjjjeebb jjeXeebb ddeeiidd ggbbbbgX hheedd bX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,6,2,
- Metre: 111010101010101 001010101010101 111110101010111 111010101010001 101010101110101 111110101010101 001110001010101 111110100110101 101010101010010 101010000010101 101011101010101 101010101110001 111110101010101 101011101010111 111010101010001 101010100010001 111011101110101 111010010010001 101010101011101 001011101010111 111000101111101 1110101010101001 101010101010101 101110101010011 111111100010111 111100100110111 111011101010111 111011101111101 11010101011101 111000101110111 10110100010001 1110101011111110 1110010101110001 111010101010001 111011111110101 1110101111100111 111011101011111 111011101011101 111010101011101 111010101111101 101100101011111 101010101111111 111011101110111 111110100010101 101110101010101 101000100110111 111110001010101 111010101010101 111010101110101 10100110010001 101110100010111 111010101110101 111010101010101 110101001110101 101010100110101 101010100110001 11111011001001001 101100101010101 101010101010101 101010101110101 101011101010111 101110101011001 111111101110101 111010101010001 101110101010101 011011101110001 101010101011101 101000100010001 111010100110101 101011101010101 101010101111101 111010101110001 101010101010101 111111101111100 100010101110111 10101010111110010 011011101010101 1110110101010111 101010101110110 111011101010001 101000101010111 101010101110001 01010101010111 1110101001111101 11010101010011 101011101110100 111111101110101 001011101010101 111011100010001 111110101111101 101110101110001 111110101010101 1011001101111101 111010101110111 111011101111101 111010111110001 101111101110101 101010101110101 101010101111001 111010100110111 111010101101101 101010101110101 101010001010101 111010100010001 101010101010101 10110010001110101 1011101010010111 111101111011111 101101001110101 111111101010101 101011101010101 101110100011101 111010101110101 001011101110101 111011100011001 101010101010101 101011101010001 101010101010101 10111010111111 1111011001011101 111110100011111 111110101110111 111110101010001 111110101010011 111111101010101 111011101111101 101010100010101 101110101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 131
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, ringing, in, i, your, he, we, diggers, wrote, his, that, for, their, they're, tom
Anaphora
and, when, wrote, like, tom, listen
Anadiplosis
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