This is an analysis of Nineteen Nine by Henry Lawson.

There's a light out there in the nearer east
In the dawn of Nineteen Nine;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabaCAXdadbabaCA
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1011100101 0010111 10011100101 1011101 1001111101 10011111 1001110111 1010111 11 010111 1011011111 0010111 1010110101 1011111 011011101 1111101 101111101 1010111 11 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

in, and, here, same, old, s, sea, my

Anaphora

here