This is an analysis of The Dons Of Spain by Henry Lawson.
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round,
Must wrestle the right to live or die from the sons of the land she found;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb bbbb bbbb ddbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0101101011110111 11001011100100111 110011010110110101 010010011100100101 111010010111010111 110101101110101 0111101011011101 1111011111010111 11001001011111111 11010010111100101 0101011111101111 01101101011010111 01001101011100101 01001101011110110 1001111010100101 1101001111010111 0101101011110111 11011001001100111 11111111111011101 1010010111111100111 11001001011100111 101001001111110111 1101101010010101 101001101011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, we, their, fought, in, for
Anaphora
we, if