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;…

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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