This is an analysis of The Haymakers’ Song by Alfred Austin.
HERE’S to him that grows it,
Drink, lads, drink!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaBaaaB aBaBXXXB cBcBccXB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1001110 111 1100110 111 0111110 1100110 1111110 111 11101110 111 1101110 111 1101110 1111110 10111110 111 11101110 111 0101010 111 0101011 1101011 1100110 111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
it, and, that, to
Anaphora
that
Epiphora
it, man
