This is an analysis of The Imported Servant by Henry Lawson.

The Blue Sky arches o’er mountain and valley,
The scene is as fair as a scene can be,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghgh XfXfidid
  • Stanza lengths: 16,8,
  • Metre: 01110110110 0101110110 111011101010 1111101101 1101101010 011110111 101101001110 10101101001 1010001010 011101101 111011101110 1110101111 111011011110 011110111 0011010110110 11101111101 1101001100 111110101 1110110001110 1111001011 1111011110 011100111 11101001010 111100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

they, and

Anaphora

the