This is an analysis of A Song Of The Republic by Henry Lawson.

Sons of the South, awake! arise!
Sons of the South, and do.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXb cbXccb deddde fbfffb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 10010101 100111 100101101 111101111 100100101 10101111 10011101 100111 0101101010 011110111 01101001101 10110101 10011101 100111 0100010001101 1001100101 110100101 00100101 10010111 100111 1111101101 111101101 1100100111 0110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

and, land, of

Anaphora

sons, the, and