This is an analysis of The Stranger's Friend by Henry Lawson.
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,
To the chaps and fellers and coves Out Back are matters of every day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddee ccbb aaff bbff ffbb ffaa eeff ccgg
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101101011011111 001110111111001001 101010011110111101 1100110111011011 11101001010111101 11110110111100111 11001001111011101 10100100101111110101 0010010010011110111 101101101011010101 011010010100110111 1111100100110100101 001010010100100101 00101001010011111 001010101011100101 1101100111110101 010111110011010111 1110110111011101 10101111111110101 01110110100100111 10110010100100111 111010010111110101 010011111110100101 11011001011110101 101101011011100101 10101101110110111 1010111110110101001 1010110011100100101 0101001011011111 1111101111100101 001001101001011111 1110101101110111 10100101111101111 1101001111111101 11101101111011111 101010011111100111 111010010110100101 1110111111110100111 11110100101101010111 1010101101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
or, and, he, to, in, his, stage, i, stranger, d, of, s
Anaphora
in, and
