This is an analysis of The Sorrows Of A Simple Bard by Henry Lawson.
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,
Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the dense:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffaa gghh cccc aaii bbdd jjffh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 111010101010100 111001101010001 001101101010101 101010101110101 111111101001001 111110101010100 111111111110111 101011101110101 011010101010111 111110101010101 111010100110101 111110101010101 1011111001010111 101010111000101 001010101011101 111010101110101 1110101011111010 1110101000100010 101110101010001 111101101111101 101100110011101 111011101011011 101111101011111 100010101010101 1011011101010100 111001100110100 111010101110111 10110101010101 11100110101101 101011101110101 111010101010001 10101010110101 111101111111111 1011001101010111 11101101111100101 111010101010110 11
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, when, their, both, s, my, they
Anaphora
when
