This is an analysis of The Tragedy by Henry Lawson.
Oh, I never felt so wretched, and things never looked so blue
Since the days I gulped the physic that my Granny used to brew;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaX ffbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111011101110111 101110101110101 101011101001111 101000100011011 111011001110111 111111011010101 101111101011101 011010111110101 111111101111111 11011101111101 111110101111101 011011101010101 1111101001111101 111110101111101 111100101110101 101011101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, he, have, might, my, to, so
