This is an analysis of The Green-Hand Rouseabout by Henry Lawson.
Call this hot? I beg your pardon. Hot!—you don’t know what it means.
(What’s that, waiter? lamb or mutton! Thank you—mine is beef and greens.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd eeeeff ggbbggaabbXe aacXaa hhiicc bb ee jj
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,12,6,6,2,2,2,
- Metre: 101111101111101 011011101110111 111011101110100 110010101011101 101111101110101 1110111011010101 101011101010111 101011101110111 101011101110101 111010101010101 111010101110111 101010111110101 111110101011101 111111101010111 101010101010111 111010101011111 111010111010111 111011101010101 101110101010101 111011101010111 101010101010001 101110101010111 101110101010101 111010111010111 1111111011111110 101010101110101 111010101110101 100011101011101 101011101011101 101010101010100 1000011010011010 111010101010111 111100100111101 1001110111111101 101010111110111 101011011111111 111011100111001 11101111111101 101111101010101 101110101010101 10111010110101 1010101001011111 011011101110001 111111101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, mutton, for, or, of, seven, down, my, yer
Anaphora
picking
