This is an analysis of Untitled by Henry Lawson.
When his heart is growing bitter and his hair is growing grey,
And he hears the debt-collector knocking several times a day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 101010101010101 1110101010100101 101100101010101 101011101010101 111010101010101 111010100110101 111010101110101 1110111111101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, his
Anaphora
and, then