This is an analysis of Trouble On The Selection by Henry Lawson.

You lazy boy, you’re here at last,
You must be wooden-legged;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcdceaXaXeae befeaggg dfXfahfh
  • Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,
  • Metre: 11011111 1101010 11110101 110101 11010101 011001 11110101 010101 10110101 110111 11111101 110101 10110101 110101 11111111 111101 11011111 100111 11000101 110101 1111101 110011 01010101 110101 11111111 110101 11111101 011101 11010101 110111 11111101 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, he, your

Anaphora

you, and, he