This is an analysis of As Good As New by Henry Lawson.
OH, this is a song of the old lights, that came to my heart like a hymn;
And this is a song for the old lights—the lights that we thought grew dim,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb bbbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10001001111011101 1000110110111111 11011010111100101 11001000111111011 10001101101110111 10001101101011101 10111001111101111 100011001110111011 1000110111111101 10001101110101111 1000110110111101 10001001111111011 10001101110111101 10001101110111101 10001101010101101 10001101011111011 1000110110110111 01101101010111101 1000110110110111 1011110010111111011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
to, that, and, old, lights, song, for, this, where, we, love, heart, as
Anaphora
and, oh
