This is an analysis of The Water by Henry Lawson.
Let others make the songs of love
For our young struggling nation;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcded cfefcded cdcdgdgd EhEhidXd eiaiciXiXbiiigdid
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11010101 11110010 11011111 0101010 11011101 0111110 01110111 1101110 10110001 1100110 111100101 1101010 11110101 1111010 11010101 0101010 110100101 1100010 01111101 1101010 11010001 10010010 110101101 1111010 11010101 0101010 11010101 0101010 11111101 11010010 11100101 0111010 11011101 0101110 11111111 0100110 01010001 1111110 11011111 11010010 11110111 0111010 11111111 1111110 11010111 0101010 01111111 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the, and, they
