This is an analysis of The Heart Of Australia by Henry Lawson.
When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum,
Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote of a war to come:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccX ddee bbfX ggbb aaff hhii ffee eeeeXffbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010011101100101 100100101100101 1110010101110101 1011111011101011 1110101001000111101 11111100010011101001 1111100101010111 101010101111101010 1100011000111111 11101101011101111 1100101010110111 0100100101100101 111010110101101 111100101110111 110101100010100101 11001010101001000 1110101100111011 11110101011110111 10100101011110101 111001001011111101 10100100101111101 11111101011110101 1010100101010101 1010110100100101 111011110101111001 01001001010100101 011100101101111 10100101010100101 11101111010111101 0100101010100101 00100111010100111 1110010011101001001 11101001001111011 110110010111011001 001111011011101001 11001001001001001 001001101101111001 101101001011101111 1110111010010010001 11101001011101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
or, of, and, australia, i, for, her, must, fight, she, on, we, in
Anaphora
and
