This is an analysis of To Hannah by Henry Lawson.

Spirit girl to whom 'twas given
To revisit scenes of pain,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dedefgfg fhfhffff
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 10101110 0010101 00111110 1110101 10111010 1110111 11100010 0011111 11101010 1010101 11111110 1110111 10101111 1010101 10110011 1110101 10100001 1011101 10111011 1110111 11101111 1110101 10101011 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, me

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

me