This is an analysis of Australian War Song by Henry Kendall.
Men have said that ye were sleeping—
Hurl, Australians, back the lie;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbXdedXfffefefeXeghehecici efefjejegigijfXf
- Stanza lengths: 32,16,
- Metre: 11111010 1010101 10111010 1010111 11101010 1000101 10111010 1010101 11101010 1011101 10001010 1010101 101010100 1010101 10111010 1010101 00101010 1110001 10101110 0110101 10101010 1111101 11101010 0110101 10101010 1011101 10101010 0011101 1001001010 1010111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 10111010 1010111 11001010 11100101 01101010 1110011 10111011 1111101 10101111 1100101 11111010 1111101 11110110 0010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
you
Anaphora
freedom, while
