This is an analysis of The Southerly Buster by Henry Lawson.
There's a wind that blows out of the South in the drought,
And we pray for the touch of his breath…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdXdEFGFXHIH Xjhjdheh XcXckada dlXlXjhj kajaXmim EFGFXHIH
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 101111001001 111101001 110011001111 101101011 01111111101 101011101 111111101101 1010011001 110010110110 11001101 1111110011110 010110001 11011111101 11011111 111110011110 11001001 1010011010100 101011101 101101101101 101011011 111011101101 111011001 10111100011010 101001001 01101101001 001001001 101111001101 001011001 111011101001 101101001 101011101111 001011001 11011101011 001111011 101011101001 111011001 101101101111 101011011 101011110101 111011011 1010010110010 11011001 101101011011 101001011 011010011010 01001011 111110010010 11001001 110010110110 11001101 1111110011110 010110001 11011111101 11011111 111110011110 11001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, he
Anaphora
we, old
