This is an analysis of Will Yer Write It Down For Me? by Henry Lawson.

In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,
When a singer or reciter gives a story or a song,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccddee ccbbff
  • Stanza lengths: 10,6,
  • Metre: 001000101011111 101011001010101 1010101001101001 101011101010111 101010100111101 111000111110001 101011000011101 10111011110111 111111110111111 101110100110111 101011101010111 101010100010111 1111101001110101 1010100101110001 111111111011101 101011101110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, yer, he, they, what, in, them