This is an analysis of Watching The Crows by Henry Lawson.

A bushman got lost in a scrub in the North,
And all the long morning the searchers went forth.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff gghhiiXiieecc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,13,
  • Metre: 01011001001 11011001011 11101111101 11101101001 11001101001 01011011001 01011011001 11101101001 11011001011 01101101011 111001001011 01101001011 11011001001 11011101011 11111011001 11011001111 11001101111 01011001001 01001110111 101111001011 11111011011 01101101101 11011001101 101011001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

stood, we

Anaphora

the