This is an analysis of The Firing-Line by Henry Lawson.
They are creeping on through the cornfields yet, and they clamber amongst the rocks,
Ere they rush to stab with the bayonet and smash with the rifle-stocks.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb bbbX ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111011011111100101 11101001011100101 11011010111110101 11011011111001001 111010011110101110 111101101101001110 01001011010101101 111111111111001001 001010010111101001 001001001011100111 101010011010100111 1110011010111100100 101100111111001001 011110110110101101 001110011111110111 111111111111001001 1110110110111011011 110110110111011011 111011011111111101 010110011111001001 1010111011110100101 1011110100110101101 1111011011110101 110100111111001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, they, with, of, in, where, world, old, some, us, who, be
Anaphora
and, in, where
