This is an analysis of The Waving Of The Red by Henry Lawson.
It is a sad and cruel fate the country’s coming to,
And there’s no use in striking, ‘so what are we to do?’…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 00011101010100 11011010111101 11111111110101 11110011110111 01101110010111 11011101010001 11111101010101 01011111110111 01110111010001 10010111110101 11011101111111 11110101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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