This is an analysis of The Bonny Port Of Sydney by Henry Lawson.
The lovely Port of Sydney
Lies laughing to the sky,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaXacXdadXcac XeXeacXc
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,
- Metre: 0101010 110001 0101010 1010101 11101110 1110111 10101010 1110001 0101110 110101 10101010 1010001 10101010 110101 10101010 1110001 11111010 1111101 11101010 1111101 10101010 1110101 11111010 1110011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, no, it
Anaphora
as, where, and
