This is an analysis of The Teams by Henry Lawson.
A cloud of dust on the long white road,
And the teams go creeping on…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd cecce ccXXc fgfXg efeXf cgccgXcbccb
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 010110111 1011101 11100101 1101000111 010101 011100101 1100111 011101101 1010101111 1011101 011110111 1100111 110100111 010100111 0010101 110110101 1100101 111101111 110100101 1100101 101110101 0100101 1110110101 111100101 1110101 1011101111 1100101 1101001001 011100100 1100101 111011111 010101 010100101 110111111 1100111 110100111 1011101 1110101101 010100101 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
and, but, the
