This is an analysis of The Route March by Henry Lawson.
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?
Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbccbAbbbb acddcc
- Stanza lengths: 10,6,
- Metre: 011010101110 011010101111101 0011101 1110101 101011101111101 011010101110 011010101011101 11101110 00111110 011010101010101 111010101110 111010100011101 100101010 00111010 1001010101 111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
hear, singing, you, children
Anaphora
did, shall
