This is an analysis of The Christ Of The 'Never' by Henry Lawson.

With eyes that are narrowed to pierce
To the awful horizons of land,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcbc dedebbbb fgfghdhd Xijifjfa fkfk
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,4,
  • Metre: 01111001 001001001 101011101 11111101 1010110110 11011101 111110110 01001011 1011010010 01101011 0010011010 11011011 110010010 11011001 110110010 11101011 111010010 11001001 1010111010 001011111 0011010110 001111011 1010010110 101001001 1010010010 101001011 1010110010 110100001 1011011010 111011001 1010010010 001001001 1010011111 11111011 111010110 11111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

god's, in, where