This is an analysis of The Pink Carnation by Henry Lawson.
I may walk until I’m fainting, I may write until I’m blinded,
I might drink until my back teeth are afloat,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaA babA XaXA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110111011101110 11101111101 1110111010101010 11101010011 1111111011111110 10101010011 1110111010101010 11101010011 1011111111101011 11101010111 1010111011111010 11101010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, until, and, you
Anaphora
i, when
