This is an analysis of As It Was In The Beginning by Henry Lawson.
As it was in the beginning, so we’ll find it in the end,
For a lover, or a brother, or a sweetheart, or a friend;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaabb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
- Metre: 101000101110001 101010101011101 101000101110111 111011101111101 111011101110101 111111101110111 101011101010101 101010111111101 101000110010101 111110100011001 101011101011101 111010101111101 101111101000111 111111111011001 001110101110111 111010111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
it, in, or, for, their, to, and, we
Anaphora
for