This is an analysis of The Ships That Won'T Go Down by Henry Lawson.
We hear a great commotion
'Bout the ship that comes to grief,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca DeDeafdf acdXeXca cgcgXfaf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101010 1011101 1100110 1010101 0101110 010101 11111010 0011111 1100010 010001 1100010 110101 1100010 110001 1101011 0011101 1101010 0110111 1101010 0010111 1111111 010100010 1111110 0011111 0101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 1101110 111101 101101010 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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