This is an analysis of What Have We All Forgotten? by Henry Lawson.
WHAT have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year?
With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggbbgg hheeii
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 111101010100101 00101001010111101 1010110111001 1011010100111 101001101011001 1111101010100101 1100010010111 1101010100111 1010010101011 10100101001001 110100101001010 1111101000001010 111010100100111 111001001011101111 11100111010100101 10010101011001 1110101101111011 1111101001101101 11110101011001 101001001111011 11110101100101 11010100111101 1001101011011001 1111111011011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, to, we, have
Anaphora
we
