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?…

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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