This is an analysis of The Distant Drum by Henry Lawson.
Republicans! the time is coming!
Listen to the distant drumming!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab aXab cccd eeed ffffXaaaf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 010001010 10001010 10001010 0010101 11101010 11111100 00100010 0011111 10101111 10001011 10101111 1111111 101001110 10111010 10111010 01101001 11101010 1011101 11011111 1011111 11111010 11111010 01101110 1011011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, you, your
Anaphora
let, and
Epiphora
you
