This is an analysis of The Legend Of Cooee Gully by Henry Lawson.
The night came down thro’ Deadman’s Gap,
Where the ghostly saplings bent…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdbd efdX eebe bcXc ghih bdgd ihhh fafa XeXe bdjd jkck elbl dXem XXbm gdldXbaea
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01111101 1010101 01011101 0100101 11110111 1011101 1110000101 1110111 01110111 11110111 111011110 111101 011100101 1010101 110010101 010101 011110101 1100101 1011100101 1011111 10101101111 1011111 11101010 0010101 111110101 1100101 110101001 00110110 11101001110 0100110 10111100101 1111101 110111111 10110101 111100101 010101 110110101 1011111 1111110101 1100101 111100101 1100111 101110101 0100101 1010111101 1110111 110100111 1100111 11110101 1000101 101001110 10100101 1100100101 1011111 0011101101 0111111 11111111100 0100111 1100111101 0110101 101100101 01101001 1110110101 0101101 11101101001 11001011 0100100101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
and, e
Anaphora
and, the
