This is an analysis of Fighting Hard by Henry Lawson.
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;
Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for you and me.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbBXbccB ddeeB ddbXB ffggb ffhhbgXB
- Stanza lengths: 10,5,5,5,8,
- Metre: 101011101010101 101011101011111 101111101010111 101110101010001 101 101110111011000 101110101010101 101111111010101 101110101010101 101 1011101001010101 1010000101010101 1010010101011101 101010101010101 101 101111111011101 101111001010101 101110111010101 101111101011100 101 101110101010101 101010101010101 1011111001010101 101010101011111 101 101010111010111 101110111010101 101100101111101 101010101010111 101 11010 101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
for, and, to, fight, england, fighting, hard, you
Anaphora
rolling, fighting, for