This is an analysis of Legend by Judith Wright.
The blacksmith's boy went out with a rifle
and a black dog running behind.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdbabcca XbedbfbeX gdhcdgdg hbifbhbih jhdhjhej
- Stanza lengths: 10,9,8,9,8,
- Metre: 0101110010 10111001 111101 10101 11011010111 101100101010 11101 11110111101111 101011 110011010 0101110010 00111101 101001 11111 101111101 10111110 11101 111101111111111101 111110010 111001001010110 1101100101 1010001 11111 1011100101 10100111010110 101110101 01010110110111101110 10100101111010 110101 11101 11101 110001010101 1010110100010 10101 0100111011101 10111011010 010110111010 0100101 10110111111 10111110101 1011111010111010 111111 1011000111110110 0010111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
can, i, his, he, like, and, of, nobody
Anaphora
and, like, he