This is an analysis of The Old Mile-Tree by Henry Lawson.
OLD coach-road West by Nor’-ward—
Old mile-tree by the track:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccdXedEd cdcdfafaeaEa cbXbagaghdhdeXEa
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,16,
- Metre: 1111111 111101 0111010 1011101 1101110 101111 01010010 0100100 1101010 010110 1111010 111101 1111010 110110 1111010 010101 1101010 110111 0101110 011101 101101010 110111 1111010 111101 1101011 010101 1101010 010101 1111110 111111 1111010 010001 0111110 011101 1111110 011101 0101010 011110 1111010 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
old, and, the
