This is an analysis of The Shearers Dream by Henry Lawson.
O I dreamt I shore in a shearing shed and it was a dream of joy
For every one of the rouseabouts was a girl dressed up as a boy…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb bb ccdd eeff aagg
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111001011010101 110010010010111101 11101001010100101 11101111111100101 111111111110100101 11111111111100101 01111010111101001 01101001001101101 011010010010101101 11001101001100101 11101101011111111 0111101111010101 111011101110100111 110010011000101111 1110010100111101110 111001010011100111 111001101011100111 111011001010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, them, every, girls
Anaphora
the, there
