This is an analysis of The Afterglow by Henry Lawson.
Oh, for the fire that used to glow
In those my days of old!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeeafXf ffffgheh cfcffbeb dididdgd jbjbdfdf ffdfffff dhfhgkXk
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 110101101 011101 11010111 110111 11011101 110101 11011111 1000111 01110111 100101 11100100 1010101 11110111 110111 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 11011111 010100 10100100 111111 01100100 011001 11011101 110111 11111111 011101 01011101 010101 01010100 111101 11111100 0010101 01110111 101101 111100011 1101001 01010100 010111 11010111 101111 11111011 010111 11110101 010101 11011101 111101 11110101 110101 01011100 010111 11111101 111101 01010111 111101 11011101 111001 11011101 111101 11010100 0011111 111110101 111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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