This is an analysis of The Outside Track by Henry Lawson.
There were ten of us there on the moonlit quay,
And one on the for’ard hatch;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcdcaca efefgdgd heheifif gfgfdhXh cjcj
- Stanza lengths: 12,8,8,8,4,
- Metre: 10101110111 1110101 110100111 1101101 1011111101 10111111 11110110101 1011111 11101110111 11011011 11101110111 1110011 011100101 1100101 1100101101 1011101 110101101 1111101 110111100 10111101 111110111 1111101 110100111 10101101 110110101 1011111 111100101 1100101 11111111 11100111 1110100111 0100101 1111110111 0011101 1110100101 1100111 1111110111 10101001 1110110111 10100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, as, cheered
Anaphora
we, and
