This is an analysis of And The Bairns Will Come by Henry Lawson.
So you’ve seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears:
You have found what we—the People—we have known for twenty years:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddbb eebB ffbB XXbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111111111111101 111110101111100 1100101010101101 1110101010101 111010111110111 111011101010111 111011101010101 1110101110101 101011101011101 0110011101110111 011110101111111 1110101010101 111000101011101 101111111010011 111011100110100 1010101010101 111111100010101 101011100010001 001000101010101 1010101010101 1110101010101000 111010001010101 101100101010101 1011101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
we, have, and, their, to, her
Anaphora
don
