This is an analysis of The Australian Marseillaise by Henry Lawson.
Sing the strong, proud song of Labour,
Toss the ringing music high;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXcb dede dadafafa gXgceheh ebebijXj jXjckiki elelcmcmXcccceeee
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 10111011 1010101 10001010 1110111 10101110 1010100 11101010 1010101 11101110 0010101 00100011 11101 10110010 1011101 10111010 0010001 100111110 1110101 10111010 1010011 10111010 10101010 10101010 1010101 11101110 1110101 10101110 1011101 11101110 1110101 11100010 1100101 11011010 1111101 11101110 1110101 11101111 1110101 11101011 1111001 10110110 1011111 10111010 0010100 11101110 1000101 111110010 1110101 11111010 1010101 01101010 1110101 11101010 0011101 10101110 1010101 10111010 1110101 00101110 1010001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
men, of, walls, us, our
Anaphora
men, to, by, walls