This is an analysis of When The `army' Prays For Watty by Henry Lawson.
When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star,
Hide the picture on the signboard over Doughty's Horse Bazaar;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa ccdd eeff ggee eehh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010100101110111 101010101010101 101110101010101 101011101010001 111011101010101 001110101010101 111110101011101 101011100010001 101000110010101 001000101011101 101110110010101 111011101110101 111011101010011 101010101010111 111010100011101 101000101010011 101011100010001 101100101010111 111011101010101 101011101111101 011010101010101 001110101011101 111110101110101 101010101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, his, and, in
Anaphora
and
