This is an analysis of The Never-Never Country by Henry Lawson.
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed,
By railroad, coach, and track --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcacA dedefaaa cgcgaehe fidiaaaa cajacaaa bdbdeaea XkekbXaa Xdhdciai aiXihdhdXdjdjeaeA
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11111101 111111 11010111 110111 0111000101 010101 111101010 0010101 01010101 110111 01010001 011101 001110101 110101 01010101 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 010101 01111111 111101 01010101 1101001 01000111 011101 110000101 011101 11111111 111101 01000111 101101 11011101 010111 11110111 1011111 11110111 110101 110011011 010101 11011101 100111 01010111 110101 11111111 111101 11011101 1100101 01011101 110101 110100001 110101 11110101 1111100 11110111 111111 11000100 011001 11011111 110111 010101010 010101 0010010 111101 01001101 010101 01110100 1010111 10111101 101111 11010010 111001 11111101 1100101 11011101 110101 10111101 110111 01111101 0010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
by, and, land, of, to
Anaphora
by, a, the, and
Epiphora
land
