This is an analysis of The Drovers by Henry Lawson.
Shrivelled leather, rusty buckles, and the rot is in our knuckles,
Scorched for months upon the pommel while the brittle rein hung free;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXdbXbXbdX XbabaXeX ebcXdXXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,8,8,
- Metre: 10010101010100110 111010101010111 1011101001111110 101011111010101 1110111000101110 001110100011 1111101010111010 111010101111100 1110101011101110 1110101011101101 1110111010011010 101110111010111 11010101001101110 101011100011 1111011010101 10100101010101 1111111010101110 111000101010101 10110101001110010 101110100011 11101010101010010 111111110011 1111111010101011 101110101010101 1010101011111010 101010101011 1110111010111010 10101111111111 1111111011111010 101010110011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, to, but, s
Anaphora
and
