This is an analysis of Australia's Peril by Henry Lawson.
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,
For the wrong we have taken part in and the wrong that we have seen done.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee ffaa bXgg hhccXccbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11101011011101011 10111101010111111 10101001010100111 11110101111111101 110100101001101 11100111101011011 111101011011101011 00100111100010011001 11110111011111 010010010101001101 1010011111101111010 11110101011001001 01001010110100111 1101110101101101 0100101011100111 10100111001011101 0111110101100101 1100101011011001000 1011101011100101 0010110011101011001 1011110010101111101 1011100010101110001 11101111111001111 101001001011110111 1101011001001101 0111101010101101101 1111011011101001 110010110101111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, have, of, her, or, who, wealth, that
