This is an analysis of Skaal by Henry Lawson.
While they struggle on exhausted,
While they plough through bog and flood,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdcXeXX XfXfghgh bcbcbfbf bhbhgaga gcgcdigi ejfjgfgf gfafbkbk befX
- Stanza lengths: 12,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Metre: 11101010 1111111 11111110 1011101 10111010 1010111 11111110 1011011 10100010 1110011 11111011 1101111 11101110 1011001 10101010 1010101 11101011 1110101 11111110 1110101 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010111 10101110 1011111 10111010 1110101 10101010 0110001 001110010 1010001 10101010 1010111 10101010 1011111 10101010 1110101 10111010 1010001 11101010 1110101 11101010 1110101 11111110 0011001 10101111 1011101 10111010 10010101 10111010 1001101 11101010 1110101 10111011 0010101 11101110 1011101 1001011110 1010111 11110010 10100101 10100010 1010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
they, while, and, in, we, who
Anaphora
while, and, we
Anadiplosis
burned, reckon
