This is an analysis of The Rose by Henry Lawson.
We love the land when the world goes round,
And deep, deep down in her thorny ground,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbBXaabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,9,
- Metre: 110110111 111100101 1111111111 110111101 110111101 1010110101 1101111011 110111101 110111101 1111100111 111101101 1110111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
we, love, rose, our
Anaphora
we

