This is an analysis of The Wander-Light by Henry Lawson.
And they heard the tent-poles clatter,
And the fly in twain was torn –…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaXac defe acacdedX gebe eedegeXX dcfc dhehbidi bcjc bbjbdkek dcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Metre: 11101110 1010111 10110010 0011111 11100110 1111101 10110110 1010101 111011111111 11101111101 11111111110 1110110111 10111010 1110111 11111110 1111101 10101010 1010101 10101010 110010100 011011111110 01001101101 010110010110 0111100111 10111110 1110101 10111111 0111101 10111110 1010001 10101010 110010100 111111111111 11111111111 111111010010 11011111111 11111010 0111101 11111010 1111101 11111010 1010111 11111010 1110101 111111010011 11111011011 111111111010 11011011111 11111010 1010111 11101110 0011111 11110110 0010101 10111110 1011111 111111111111 11111111111 0111111011111 11011101111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
or, beds, and, my, his, dreams, me, i, ways
Anaphora
and, he, the, i
