This is an analysis of The Stringy-Bark Tree by Henry Lawson.
There's the whitebox and pine on the ridges afar,
Where the iron-bark, blue-gum, and peppermint are;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ccbb ccdd eebb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010011101001 101011111011 101001011001 101001101011 101011001001 101011001001 101111011011 101101001011 111101011001 111111001101 111011001110 111011101011 11011001011 101111011111 101101011101 101001001011 11001011111 101011011101 111111001111 1011001001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, bark, of, stringy, for
Anaphora
and