This is an analysis of The King (Ii) by Henry Lawson.
And now a son has come again
To keep the peace or strike the blow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aXcXaXXXXdadadcdc
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 11011101 01011101 110111001 11110111 11111100 11111111 01010101 01010101 11011101 01010111 01110111 11010011 11110101 01010101 01110001 11111101 11110101 01100101 11110101 01011101 11110011 11111111 01010001 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, and
