This is an analysis of Written Out [1] by Henry Lawson.
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;
Sing the song of a sinner and the song of a writer, too—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee eeff ddeeXaaee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010010111111 101001010100101 100100100011101 0100101010101001 10000101010101111 10100101110101101 11100111110111101 111001010001011001 1110111010100111 1100100101010111 111101110111100111 11110001011101001 10100111010100111 110010101100101 100100101100101 11001001011100101 1101001011011101 111001111011100101 01011001010100101 10101011011011111 10110101010010111 1010011010110111101 11100111101111001101 111010010111100111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
in, song, of, and, he, d, that, some, to, them, write
Anaphora
sing, he