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’,…

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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