The Old Mile-Tree by Henry Lawson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Old Mile-Tree that begins with:

OLD coach-road West by Nor’-ward—
Old mile-tree by the track:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdXedEd cdcdfafaeaEa cbXbagaghdhdeXEa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 111101 0111010 1011101 1101110 101111 01010010 0100100 1101010 010110 1111010 111101 1111010 110110 1111010 010101 1101010 110111 0101110 011101 101101010 110111 1111010 111101 1101011 010101 1101010 010101 1111110 111111 1111010 010001 0111110 011101 1111110 011101 0101010 011110 1111010 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words old, and, the are repeated.

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