This is an analysis of Rewi To Grey: The Old Maori Chief’s Last Message by Henry Lawson.
We have lived till these times, brother,
We who lived in this;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD beXeadaDXbeeecdcD
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 11111110 11100 11111010 11111 10111110 1111101 01101010 0011101 10111111 01111 11011010 11111 11101010 1110111 11111110 0011101 11011011 10101 11111010 10101 01111010 1111101 01101010 0011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
we
Anaphora
we, on
