This is an analysis of The Little Czar by Henry Lawson.
Oh, Great White Czar of Russia, who hid your face and ran,
You’ve flung afar the grandest chance that ever came to man!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee dddd ffaa ccgg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111010111111 11010101110101 11101110110011 0101010011111 0100110110101 0101010110111 1101110010101 001011101010111 110101100101101 1101010010101 0111110010101 11010101010001 1111010010101 1111100011101 1001001010101 1101010010101 1101010011101 101001101100111 11011101111001 11011001010111 1111110111111 1100110111101 1101111110111 11001101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
your, to, his, of, and, their, our
Anaphora
you, the
