This is an analysis of The Shearers by Henry Lawson.
No church-bell rings them from the Track,
No pulpit lights theirblindness--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXcdceXeXXXXc afbXgfXf bcbXgdfd dhdhgbeb
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110001 1101100 11011100 1111010 010010101 0111110 011101001 0110010 11011101 1110010 11010111 1101111 110111011 110100100 1101111010 1101110 11110111 1111111 01111001 111101010 110100111 0100110 11110111 1111011 11001101 0101010 11011011 0101000100 110101101 1111010 11010101 1110110 11110001 1101010 11111101 1101110 11110001 0101110 10111101 1100110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, man, or, to
Anaphora
no, the, they, and