This is an analysis of Drought Year by Judith Wright.

That time of drought the embered air
burned to the roots of timber and grass.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaa bbccddXddddbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,14,
  • Metre: 110101001 100101011 01011111 11011111 01011101 110101 001101011 110100101 1010101 110110111 001110011 110110001 0011111111 1111111 11100101 111101001011 1011101 111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18