This is an analysis of When The Children Come Home by Henry Lawson.
On a lonely selection far out in the West
An old woman works all the day without rest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXX ddeX bbaX ffXd ggeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101001011001 11101101011 111111101101 1110111010110 11101011111 11011111101 111001111001 111011101011 001100101101 11111101111 11111111011 101111101111 01001011001 11001001011 01101011011 111111011010 11101111001 111101111011 111001111010 101111001001 11001011001 11111001011 111111101001 1110110010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
she, and, he
Anaphora
she
