This is an analysis of The Light On The Wreck by Henry Lawson.
Out there by the rocks, at the end of the bank,
In the mouth of the river, the Wanderer sank.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddee ffbbaaXbbccaa
- Stanza lengths: 12,13,
- Metre: 11101101001 001001001001 101011011011 11001101011 111101001111 1010001001101 101101101001 001101001001 101110111001 101011101001 111101011101 111011001001 101001111001 101001101011 101101001001 0010010010011 101001111001 101011101101 101101101001 101001101001 101011010101 111111011011 111011011011 111011101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, on, for, of, in, watch, from, they
Anaphora
and, keep
