This is an analysis of When The Duke Of Clarence Died by Henry Lawson.
Let us sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,
Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaacc aaXXcc eeaa ffcccc ggccccXcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,4,6,9,
- Metre: 111011101010101 101010101011100 1011111001010101 101010111010001 1110101001010111 111011101010101 001010100010111 001110101011101 111011101010101 111001101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101011101110111 101000101010101 10011101010100001 111010101010101 101011100010011 101011101010101 101010100010101 101000101011101 001010100010111 101010101010001 111000101110001 111111101010101 101010110010101 101111001010101 101010101010101 001010101010101 0101010101010101 1010010101011101 111111111010011 111011101010101 101010101110101 101110101010101 1001110101110101 111010101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, s, of, in, he
Anaphora
and
