This is an analysis of Divorced by Henry Lawson.
TWO COUPLES are drifting the self-same way
(Men of the world know well)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebXBfdXd XbbBXfXfXdcfcefdf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
- Metre: 1101100111 100111 0011110111 100111 101101111 1100111 110011101 00101101 010110101 10101111 11111001001 1100111 0111100111 1111111 1100100101 11100101 110110110 10101101 0101101001 1100111 0101100100 111011001 1100100101 111001001 10101101001 1100111 11111011001 11101101 1010101001 00110111 01101011011 101111011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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