This is an analysis of The Ports Of The Open Sea by Henry Lawson.
Down here where the ships loom large in
The gloom when the sea-storms veer,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdedeffe XdddgcgC Xhahgcgc ieieXbgb ddXdjcjc gkgkdldl XedejcjC dmXmicic
- Stanza lengths: 15,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11101110 0110111 11101110 0010101 101001110 1010111 11001010 10100101 101101110 00100111 101001110 00111001 101101010 10111010 10100111 10100111 10101101 101001110 00100111 1010001110 10100110 101001010 10100101 10101110 10100111 101001110 11100101 10111110 1100110 10111010 10100101 1101110 110111 1101010 110111 1001110 110101 101111010 1110111 10111111 0010001 10111110 1011111 10101010 1011101 10101110 00100101 11101110 0100111 11101110 010111 1001010 1110111 101001110 1100101 101001110 0100101 10111110 1100111 11111110 0110110 01001010 10100101 11001010 111111 10101010 110101 0101110 110111 10101010 0100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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