This is an analysis of To A Pair Of Blucher Boots by Henry Lawson.

OLD acquaintance unforgotten,
Though you may be “ugly brutes”—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXAB cdcd ecec fgfg AXXB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10101000 11101010 11101110 1110101 10101011 1010101 10101111 0011111 10111010 1111101 11110010 0010101 11011010 1110101 11101110 1110101 11101110 11101010 10111000 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Anaphora

though