Poem Analysis of The Australian Marseillaise by Henry Lawson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Australian Marseillaise that begins with:

Sing the strong, proud song of Labour,
Toss the ringing music high;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abXbcXcb dede dadafafa gXgceheh ebebijXj jXjckiki elelcmcmXcccceeee
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,8,17,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10111011 1010101 10001010 1110111 10101110 1010100 11101010 1010101 11101110 0010101 00100011 11101 10110010 1011101 10111010 0010001 100111110 1110101 10111010 1010011 10111010 10101010 10101010 1010101 11101110 1110101 10101110 1011101 11101110 1110101 11100010 1100101 11011010 1111101 11101110 1110101 11101111 1110101 11101011 1111001 10110110 1011111 10111010 0010100 11101110 1000101 111110010 1110101 11111010 1010101 01101010 1110101 11101010 0011101 10101110 1010101 10111010 1110101 00101110 1010001
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
Average number of words per stanza: 44
Amount of lines: 60
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; men, of, walls, us, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words men, to, by, walls are repeated.

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The Australian Marseillaise by Henry Lawson: poem analysis

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