This is an analysis of Song Of The Dardanelles by Henry Lawson.
The Wireless tells and the cable tells
How our boys behaved by the Dardanelles.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbBBbaabBBBB bbbBBBB ccbbBBb ddbbBBb eebbBBbXaabBBBB
- Stanza lengths: 14,7,7,7,15,
- Metre: 010110101 11101101000 1101101110 1100111111 111 111 1010111111 11111011111 110110101 111101101 11100111111 111 111 11100111111 1100101111 1011100101 11101101110 1110111111 111 111 1110111111 011110101 1110110101 1011100101 10100111111 111 111 1011111111 1011110111 11100111101 110111011 111011111111 111 111 11011111111 011110111 0101001011 1110110101 11111111111 111 111 1111111111 0010110101 0010110101 0101100101 1110111111 111 111 1110111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
they, knew, would, and
Anaphora
knew, from
Epiphora
would
Anadiplosis
they
