This is an analysis of Booth's Drum [1] by Henry Lawson.
They were “ratty” they were hooted by the meanest and the least,
When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago in London East.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccDefXXgf bbXfdddhhh iiggjjkkk llmmnennn oohhddd kkjjmmnn nXjjddXghbhmfmfD
- Stanza lengths: 14,10,9,9,7,8,16,
- Metre: 101010101010101 111010101010101 101011101011101 111000101110111 101010101010101 111110101110101 111101101110101 11 11111110 1110001 10101110 10101110 11100010 1010101 1110101001111001 111010100010001 111010111110100 111010100110101 111010101110101 101110111110101 101110101110101 11100010111001 111010100011001 101011111110101 110010101110101 101010101111101 101011100011111 1110111011111001 101001101010111 1111100101111101 111000101110101 11111001110001 101111100110001 111110101111101 011001101010101 111101101101111 111110101111101 111110101111111 111011100011100 101011100010110 1111111010101001 1110110101010111 101000101110101 111011100010111 101100101111101 001010101111101 101110101010101 11101101110101 001010101110101 101010101110111 111000101011111 111010101111101 101111101110101 101011111010111 11100100100010101 111011101011101 101011101010111 111110111111010 10111011111111 101011111010101 101010111110101 111110100010101 111011111010001 11100010 1000111 10101010 1010101 11111110 1011101 11111010 1010101 11
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, in, drum, he, banged, we, of, us, our, his
Anaphora
he, and, that, they
Epiphora
peace, ring, him
Anadiplosis
prayed
