This is an analysis of Foreign Lands by Henry Lawson.
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,
Sail as far as ships can sail, and travel far as trains can run;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbddbbeeb ffbb ggbbeeb eebbffb hhbbiibXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,4,7,7,12,
- Metre: 111011101011101 111111111011111 111110101111101 101100111111101 10101110 11101110 101110101110101 101100101111111 101110101111101 101010111110101 101110100010101 1010111 1011111 101110100010101 111010101010111 101010101011101 111011101010101 111001101010101 101010101010111 101110101010101 111011101011101 101010101010101 1010111 1011101 101110101010101 101010101011101 101010101010001 111000101111011 111111101010101 1011101 1011101 101011100010101 1110101001010101 101001101010101 111011101010101 101011111110101 1111111 1010101 101001101010101 111111101010111 111011101010101 101010111011111 111010101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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