This is an analysis of Nemesis by Henry Lawson.
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,
When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddddee ffggee hhhhaa ggiijj bbkkcc iillii aaeeeX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0011101010101001 111010100110101 101100101110111 101011101110101 101010100011101 101111101010111 100010101010101 101010101001101 101010101010101 101110111000101 001011100010111 101010101010111 101011101010101 101010101010101 111010101011111 111011111011101 111000101011111 1010111010100101 1010001010111001 101010101010101 1010101010101001 100010100010101 101011100110101 101110100010101 111011101011101 1010100101110011 101001111010111 001100110010101 111100101010001 111010101011101 111111101111101 101010110111101 111010101010111 111010100010101 101010101010001 101010101110101 101011111001101 100110101010101 111010101011001 110010101100101 101010101010101 101000101010001 111010101010001 111010101110101 101110101111101 101111101110101 10101010101001010 1010101010111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
and, when, to, with, of, in, look
Anaphora
when, we
Anadiplosis
war
