This is an analysis of After All by Henry Lawson.
The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town;
My spirit revives in the morning breeze,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb ccbb Xddbb cXcbb eebb
- Stanza lengths: 6,4,5,5,4,
- Metre: 0101001011100111 1100100101 10110111 0100110101 1010111 11111101010001101 0101001011010111 010010011100101111 01110010011010111 11101101010011101 11100111111 1100111 01010010111100101 10101001011100001 11101101110011101 0110111111010111 1111100101 10101101 10101101111110111 1101001010001101 1111110111100101 01001111100101101 1111101011111111 1111101110001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, be, world, i, my
Anaphora
and, the, though
