This is an analysis of Only A Sod by Henry Lawson.
It's only a sod, but ’twill break me ould heart
Nigh hardened wid toilin’ and carin’,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab bcbbc dXddb dXddX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01001111111 110110110 11011001011 01001101011 01010010 01001101011 0110111110 11101011001 11111011001 1010110110 01001111011 1010010110 101111100101 1110110101 1011110110 01001111001 1111110110 100011111011 11011001011 1010010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, me