This is an analysis of The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson.
From Woolwich and Brentford and Stamford Hill, from Richmond into the Strand,
Oh, the Cockney soul is a silent soul – as it is in every land!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cc aadd aaXX Xc ccee ff ffcc cX
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,4,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Metre: 01011011010100001 101010010110001001 11101001010110101 1010010011011010101 110010010100100101 1100111011010101 10001001010100101 11100101011100111 00101010101010100101 1111011110011111 1000111011100111 0010110011110101001 101101101111100101 10101111011101111010 1110110011100001010100 10101001100001111111 1000100101111101 101111010100101001 1111101011100111 1111001110010111 111100101011101 11101011011010101 110010010110010101 101111010111100101 111101001001101001 00100101011011001 11101011011010101 1110110101111101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, them, of, in, his, he
Anaphora
oh, he
Epiphora
square
