This is an analysis of The Motor Car by Henry Lawson.
The motor car is sullen, like a thing that should not be;
The motor car is master of Smart Society.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccDddc baeeDdde ffccDddc ffaaddda ggccdddc hhiidddi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01010101011110 0101010010100 1101010110101 1111010010101 1111010 0101010 1101010 010101 0101011111100 11110111011110 01010101010101 01110101010101 1111010 0101010 0111010 010101 010101001011101 01010101010001 01010101011001 1111010010101 1111010 1111010 0111010 010101 01010101010101 01010100010101 010101111111001 101110101010101 0111010 1111010 1111010 010101 0101010110011 0100110010011 01100110011101 1101010011101 1111010 1111010 1111010 011101 1111110111101 11111100110111 1111110111101 11010101011101 1101010 0100010 1111010 010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
caesar, s, column, for, it, and, car, motor, in, its
Anaphora
the, twas, and, its
Epiphora
column
