This is an analysis of In The Street by Henry Lawson.

Where the needle-woman toils
Through the night with hand and brain,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabc cddee fggaf fbbgg addghXhffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,11,
  • Metre: 1010101 1010111 101011101010101 101101 101101 101110101010111 0010101100111001 111010100010001 111011100010101 101011101010111 1011001 1010101 001010100011001 1011101 1011111 001110101110111 111010101011101 101011101010101 101001101010101 101010101110001 1010101 1010101 101010100010001 11101011 1010101 001000101111111 11011101110101 101010101010001 101010101010101 111000101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, he

Anaphora

till, and, that