This is an analysis of A Reflection On Lawson's Poems by John Le Gay Brereton.
Seasons bloom and seasons wither; dark or bright, they cannot last.
Must we try with floods of bitter teas to vivify the past?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccc ddd Xee aaa fff
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 101110101111101 111010101010001 101011101010101 1110100111111111 101010101010111 111111101010110 101010110010101 110010101011101 101110101001011 111011101010101 101110101011101 111110101110001 10111010101001001 111011101011101 101010011110101 111101101110111 101111101110001 101111101110111 1001101000110001 111011111110101 111011101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
or, of, when, days, and
Anaphora
days, and
