This is an analysis of To-Morrow by Henry Lawson.

When you’re suffering hard for your sins, old man,
When you wake to trouble and sleep ill—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcXdcececXcad XaXacdcad
  • Stanza lengths: 18,9,
  • Metre: 11100111111 111010111 1000100101 110010010 11110110101 111010110 1110100101 11100101011 111001010 1111100101 110111010 111111111 11111110 11101100111 111111111 1110100111 11100101011 111001010 1100111111 101101010 11101001111 101001010 11101111111 11011010 1111110101 11110101011 111101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

you, may, to, of, and

Anaphora

when, and, you, can