This is an analysis of The Song Of The Darling River by Henry Lawson.
The skies are brass and the plains are bare,
Death and ruin are everywhere --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbbcc ddddcc eXddbbcc bbeeffXc aAbbcX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,8,8,6,
- Metre: 011110111 11101101 1110100111 0010110111 0101101010010 10001001010 1100100111 1111001101 111100101 11111100111 10111101010 0101001010 111101111 1111001001 111101111 1100100101 11100101111 101111101111 0101001110 01001011110 111100101 110100101 111111101 010110101 110100111 1111011001 1111011010 10001001010 110110111 11101101 110111001 011101111 10101001010 011010010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, my, i, have
Anaphora
i, and
