This is an analysis of The Iron Wedding Rings by Henry Lawson.
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal,
There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding rings of steel;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd eeee ffgg dXbb bbXb bbbb bbeX dXaX ccee bbee aahh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011011101010100 111010101010101 101011101110111 101011101111101 001010101010101 111010100010101 101110101011101 101011111011111 101011100010101 101010101010101 101110101011101 111110111010110 101011100010111 101111101110101 101010111110111 101011111010001 101010101110101 101110101010000 101011100010111 101010101110101 101010101010001 101010100011101 0011101010101100 101111101010001 101011101110101 101001101010001 111111101011101 101000111010001 101010101010101 001010111010001 1100011110010101 01101110101011010 111111101010101 101111101010000 1110110101010101 1110101000101010 001000101011111 001000101010101 001100111011001 101010101010111 101110100010111 101011101010101 101010101110101 001010101110101 111010100110001 101010101010101 111110101111101 001111101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, in, to, from, their
Anaphora
there, and, from
