This is an analysis of The Western Stars by Henry Lawson.
On my blankets I was lyin’
Too tired to lift my head,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1110111 1100111 1011111 1111111 00101110 110101 10101010 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
an
