This is an analysis of the poem The Heart Of The Swag that begins with:
Oh, the track through the scrub groweth ever more dreary,
And lower and lower his grey head doth bow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdXefXfeceX gegedcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011010110 11011001111 1010011010010 101011001001 1100111101110 01001001001 1110010100010 01001001001 1111010011110 111001111011 1110110010110 11111011001 1110110110110 111001011011 111010111010 111001001001 1110111010011 111001101001 1011111011011 1010110011001 1110110110010 111001101111 10011011110010 101001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, there, in, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, there, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word swag at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Heart Of The Swag;
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More information about poems by Henry Lawson
- Analysis of The Black Tracker (Or: Why He Lost The Track)
- Analysis of The Crucifixion [the Light Of The World]
- Analysis of The Vanguard [11]
