This is an analysis of The Bush Fire by Henry Lawson.
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,
Than the terrible silence where drought is fought out there in the western hell;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh iijj kkkk hhXe ggee llaa mmkk lliiXlldd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110010010110100101 101001011011100101 110010010110101111 1011100101001010110 1010010010111111011 101110011100100101 11111101110100101 11001001010100111 101001101011100101 10100111110101101 010111100111001010 11110110111001010 01110010110110111 00101110100101001001 111010110010100111 010010110110101101 1110101111100100111 1100101110101100101 10110101011111111 111001101011110111 1101001011111101 11010110110101001 110010010010100101 1111101111110101 11101101010100101 1101001110110101 0111101110101110 101110010110110101 010101011110111 11001001011101001 111010011110100101 110110101111100101 00110110100110111011 011010111110100101 1010110011010110111 01101001001111101 111001001111011101 101010011110101101 101010011110100101 10111101111011101 11001001111010101 1101001001110101 1101001010100101 110110100110100101 1101001011100101 11010010010011111 1101010100100101 111001001011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, north, his
Anaphora
and
