This is an analysis of The Empty Glass by Henry Lawson.
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room—
Ah! The number is one too few—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe cfafcghg gdedbfcf dbdbdigi cccccjcj hkakXcgcXcfefcghg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1111100111 10100111 1111110101 10111101 1101100111 1010111 1101111101 11101101 10010100101 1010111 10011100101 1100101 1011110101 101101001 1110101100 100101101 1010110111 1010111 110110101 1110111 10011100111 1100101 1110011111 1111101 100101110101 11111111 10101110101 1101111 1010110111 1100101 1010100101 0101001 00101110101 1110101 00100100101 0011101 1110110101 1010101 10101101101 1111111 11101100100 0111001 0110101111 11001011 1111110101 1111101 1010100101 1110101 10010101 1011101 101001001001 1110111 1011110101 10100101 1110101100 100100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, s, by
Anaphora
and, in