This is an analysis of When You’re Bad In Your Inside by Henry Lawson.
I remarked that man is saddest, and his heart is filled with woe,
When he hasn’t any money, and his pants begin to go;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddbb aaddbb eeccbb aaffbb ccggbb hhhhbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 101110101010101 11110101010101 1111101011110111 111110100111101 101010101010111 101010101010001 101111101010111 111011111010101 101111101010111 001010101010001 111111101110111 111011101110101 10110110101101 111000101100101 11010101010111 111110100010100 11111100010111 101010101110101 111111101111001 101010101010101 11110101111101 1111101101010101 111110101110101 101010111110101 1101011100111101 101010101110101 101110101010101 1100011101110001 11111111101101 11010101110101 111011101110011 11101010111101 101011111111101 1110100101011111 1110111110101001 11010101110001 101010001110110 101000101110100 111010101111101 101001110110101 111010111010001 111111101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, your, you, what, to, she
Anaphora
you, and
Anadiplosis
you
