This is an analysis of When The Ladies Come To The Shearing Shed by Henry Lawson.
‘The ladies are coming,’ the super says
To the shearers sweltering there,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdccc efcfXXge hdfdeiei aejekiki ejejcece ghghjbjb dldlmcmc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0101100101 00101001 1010100101 1111111 0100100111 1100111 1100110101 10100101 011101101 1011101 110110101 10100101 10010111100 1110111 1010100101 1101101 11100101110 11111101 1111100101 10110111 110101101 0010111 110110101 11100101 110100101 1101101 101111111001 1110101 1010100101 00100101 110100111 0100111 111100101 11100101 011110101 11100101 11101001001 1110101 1110111111 0110101 111100111 0100101 0100111111 11110101 110100101 1010111 1111110101 0100111 0101111101 0100101 1111100101 10100101 1011100111 0111111 0100100101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, with, of
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
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