This is an analysis of The Cliffs by Henry Lawson.
They sing of the grandeur of cliffs inland,
But the cliffs of the ocean are truly grand;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff aagg ffdd aahh ddii
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1100010111 10100101101 1110101111 10110101111 0010110111 111101101 110100111 10110101101 110100101 10110101111 101110101 10110101111 110111101 11101001001 11101001110 11110111110 1011110111 110101101 1111111111 00111111101 1011110111 1111111111 1011110111 1111111111 1101100101 1111111111 1111110111 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, cliffs, they, i, me, think
Anaphora
and