This is an analysis of The Fairy West by Henry Lawson.
I.
We wrote and sang of a bush we never…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdedeff bebebgbgfF ghghbcbcff ififififff ieiegfgfff Xffffhfhfff bebeijij dXdXdada kdkddjdj blXlXkck bmbmbhbh mXXXXjXjfF fncn
- Stanza lengths: 11,10,10,10,10,11,8,8,8,8,8,10,4,
- Metre: 1 1111001110 110100101 00111101010 011110111 0111101110 0110110111 1101001110 011100101 111110111 1111100101 11110010010 011101111 0111001010 010101101 0111001010 111110101 11000101110 111100101 111110111 1111100101 1111101010 010111101 10101101010 1101001001 1111011010 1101101111 011100110 111111101 111110111 1111100101 1111101110 111110101 11001001010 1010110111 11101001010 111100011 11011011110 110100111 1111101011 0010100101 101101001110 1111011011 1101001010 010101101 0111001110 101110101 11101001010 111100101 111110111 1111100101 1 1111011110 1100100101 0111101010 1000101111 010110101 010110101 0101100101 1100100101 111111101 010100101 0111001010 010100101 1100101010 0100110101 01010001110 10011101 00100111010 110011101 1011001110 101011100 00101101110 1011011000 10110110010 10100101 01101001010 1111101111 1101001111 111111111 01001011111 0100100101 0101101010 000101101 1111001010 110101101 1101011010 010110101 0111001110 111100101 1011101110 011110111 1101001010 111100101 01011001110 1101110101 0101001010 010100101 0101001010 010100101 0101001110 111101111 110001111010 010100111 10110110110 101101100 1011011010 101001101 01010011110 1100100101 1101110111 1111100101 11101001110 110000111 1101011011 1101101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 117
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, may, it, be, of
Anaphora
the, or, and, it, we, a
