This is an analysis of The Shakedown On The Floor by Henry Lawson.
Set me back for twenty summers—
For I’m tired of cities now—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdefgfaXeh eaaagiji ffffadcd XfXfcheh aaeafheh ibabgbjbXaagagbib
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11111010 11100101 11101110 1110101 00111010 1011101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1110101 101111010 1011111 100111010 1110101 101010010 10011101 10101010 10100101 00111010 1111111 10100010 1010001 10111110 1010111 11101111 0010101 11101111 0010101 11101011 1010101 101001010 1011101 11111010 1011101 11111010 1110111 10101010 1111111 10111110 1011101 11101010 1110101 11101110 1010101 10101111 1111101 10111110 1011101 11101111 1010111 11101011 1101001 11101010 1111111 10101011 1011101 11101110 1110111 00111110 1011101 10101010 1011011 11111010 0011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
and, me, i, for
Anaphora
and, rock
Epiphora
me
Anadiplosis
mother
