This is an analysis of How The Land Was Won by Henry Lawson.
The future was dark and the past was dead
As they gazed on the sea once more –…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghgh ididhaha agaggggG ijijicbc iihigggG gigiigkG Xakahihi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0101110111 11110111 101011101001 101011101 0110010101 0100101 011100111 111111 010110111 1010111 010110111 00101101 0100100111 10110101 011100111 11101111 011010111 10110101 1010110111 010001111 11100101 1110101 111101111 1111101 0111110111 111101 010010101 00100101 111100101 1100101 111100101 1110111 0101110111 1110101 011100111 0111001 0111001001 0011111 11010101 0100111 1111110100 1100111 1100100101 110101 011100101 0110101 01001010001 1110111 111110111 1101111 110100101 0011101 011100101 1110101 011100101 1110111 1011100111 1010111 0100110111 1011111 0100100101 1110111 1111011111 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
and, they
Anaphora
the, and
