The Watch On The Kerb by Henry Lawson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Watch On The Kerb that begins with:

Night-Lights are falling;
Girl of the street,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcCCXc dXdbebeb fbfbghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 1001 10110 0111 10111 11101 110010 11101 1101 1101 10010 11101 10111 1101 10011 1101 11111 1101 10011 1101 10010 1101 11010 1001 10110 11011 10010 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; watch, on, kerb, world are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word watch is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kerb is repeated).

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