This is an analysis of The Professional Wanderer by Henry Lawson.
When you’ve knocked about the country—been away from home for years;
When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your eyes with tears—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddaabbeeddffgg
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 111010100010110 101110101011101 111010101110111 101011101110111 1010100101011101 111011101110111 101110101111101 101111100010000 111111101111111 111011101010111 101011101010101 101010111010101 101010100011101 111010101011111 110111111010011 111110111110101 101110111011111 111010101110101 101010101010101 101110111111101 101111100010011 111110101011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
you, ll, and, it, your, to, when
Anaphora
when, then
