This is an analysis of The Cab Lamps by Henry Lawson.
The crescent moon and clock tower are fair above the wall
Across the smothered lanes of ’Loo, the stifled vice and all,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXaa ccdd eecc eeff cceeXccee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01011110110101 01010101010111 1001110111111 0101110111101 0111101111111 01110101111000 01101011110101 101010101110101 1001111101101 11110011011101 101110101010011 10101110101001 101000101011111 101111101011111 101111101011101 10111110111001 101111101011111 111011101010101 1011111010100010 111011101110110 1011000100010101 11111110001111 111110110011111 111110100010101 0111101110101 0111101111111 11111101011111 101101111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, oh, you, they, me
Anaphora
the
