This is an analysis of the poem When Your Sins Come Home To Roost that begins with:
When you fear the barber’s mirror when you go to get a crop,
Or in sorrow every morning comb your hair across the top:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccbb aabb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101110101 1010100101110101 111001101011101 001010101111101 100010101110001 101110101110101 101010100011101 111010101110100 111011101111111 101110101011011 111011101011101 101011101111101 111111101111101 111011101110111 101011101110101 111110101111101 111010101111101 001010101110111 111111101110001 110010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, you, sins, and, your, to, ll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word roost at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Henry Lawson
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- Analysis of His Brother’s Keeper
