This is an analysis of The Song Of The Waste-Paper Basket by Henry Lawson.
O BARD of fortune, you deem me nought
But a mark for your careless scorn.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcd eaeabfbf gbgbhfhf dedeiaia
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 110101111 10111101 1110101101 10100101 110111101 1100111 1110010001 00101101 010101111 00100101 110100101 11101001 110111101 0100101 010110101 0111101 111100101 1110101 0101111101 0010101 011101101 1110101 1110111101 1111001 110100101 0101111 0100101101 0111101 10100101101 00100111 1100100111 1010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, and
Anaphora
and, of, the
