This is an analysis of The Briny Grave by Henry Lawson.
You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,
In this world of froth and bubble,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXccbdbXedeXXfgfghXhXXeieijcjcc akXkkekee
- Stanza lengths: 35,9,
- Metre: 11011101010001 00101110 1111010101 101101010 11111010 11111011111 1010001010 00101010 11110101011 101110010 111110101 111101001 0100100101 1010001010 1110100101 1011010010 11110010 11111010001 111111111 1111110111 10101011 0101111101 101101110 11111111101 001001110 1101101110 01010100111 101101111 11110101001 1111110 10111001111 110010010 1111111101 11011010 11111010 011010010101 11100010010 101011010101 101001010 011110111 00111010 1111100101 001101010 101101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
no, for, there, and, of
Anaphora
and, it
Epiphora
maker, steerage, trotters, together, second
