This is an analysis of The Voice From Over Yonder by Henry Lawson.

“Did she care as much as I did
When our paths of Fate divided?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccb ddXcbXeeb ffbbaXab
  • Stanza lengths: 7,9,8,
  • Metre: 01111110 11101010 101111000 0110111 10101010 10101010 101010101010101 11101010 11111100 11101110 01101010 0110101 10111111 10100110 10100010 101010101010101 10001010 100101110 10011111 1010011 11101110 101110100 11101010 101010101010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

to, you

Anaphora

and, to, say