South of My Days - Stanza 3

*Was set in the year 1901
*Wright uses an analogy to describe the sunset. "And the yellow boy died". This analogy paint's a picture in the readers mind of a sun setting.
*Wright uses a simile in the line "the mud round them hardened like iron" to add emphasis on how hot the country gets in summer.
*Wright uses colloquialism to set the tone of a typical Australian country resident. "It was the flies we seen first, swarming like bees". This colloquialism "we seen" gives us the image of a typical Australian, as the grammar of the Australian vocabulary is slang.
*A metaphor is used to show again how hot the summer of 1901 was in the country through the quote "and the river was dust". The cattle came to the river to drink to keep them alive but the river was too dried out.