This is an analysis of To Be Amused by Henry Lawson.
You ask me to be gay and glad
While lurid clouds of danger loom,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcgcg dadahdhd ihihjada jdjdafaX kdkXljlj ldldidid kdkdfmfX lnlnjaXaXmdmdjaja
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11100111 11010101 111111001 01010001 11110111 010111001 11111011 11010101 01010111 00011111 01110100 01110101 01110101 0100010101 11011101 1010100101 11010101 01010101 10010101 11011101 01010101 01110101 01110111 01110100 11110101 11010001 111101001 01010111 11111110 11111101 110100100 01010011 1101101 11010111 010001001 11000101 11011101 11111101 01011100 01010100 11010101 01010111 01010001 11011100 01010101 01100101 11111111 01110010 11010011 01011101 11111111 01110001 11110111 01011101 11110101 11111100 11011101 01011101 11000101 11110101 11010111 11011111 11110001 11111111 01111111 11011111 11110101 01010101 11010101 01111101 1101010010 1100011011 11110101 11111100 11111101 11010100 01100111 11011001 11011101 11100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
and, from, i
Anaphora
the, i
