This is an analysis of The Women Of The Town by Henry Lawson.
It is up from out the alleys, from the alleys dark and vile—
It is up from out the alleys I have struggled for a while—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb ffbb ggbb aabb ccbbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 001010100010111 001010101110101 101010101110111 101010101010001 100010111110111 101111100110101 10101101110101 011111110010001 111011100010101 101011100010101 100011101010101 111011100010001 001011101110111 1010100101011101 111110111111101 100011101010001 111010100010011 101010101010101 101011100011001 111010101010001 111111110110111 101011101110111 101010101010101 101010100010001 1001011101110101 101010101010001 1001011101110111 111011101010001 111011101110001 101010100010001 111000101010111 001010101010001 101011101010001 101010101110111 100010101011101 101111101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, from, alleys, and, s
Anaphora
it
