This is an analysis of That Great Waiting Silence by Henry Lawson.
Where shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?
The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbB ddee ffgg hhbB aabBXeebb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11111100111111 01011010101011 11101111011111 1111010010101 1001011000110111 10101111010101101 01010011001101001 11110100100101 111111010111101 100101101010101 1001011100111 1110010010010111 01011101011101 101100111011101 1111001010110101 11111110010101 11111111111101 11100100101100101 1010010101011111 1111010010101 11101101101111 1001001011100001 101111000110111 11110100100101 101101011111111 101100101101111 111001001011101 1010110100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, australian, we
Anaphora
there, brothers
