This is an analysis of To An Old Mate by Henry Lawson.
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather,
When our hopes and our troubles were new,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd aeaeae fcfXfc gdgdgd hdhdhd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 110010110 111111001 0001010110 11110011 1110110010 101011011 1111011010 11001001 1110110010 01101011 1110111110 11011101 1010111010 01111011 0100110010 01011001 111010110 11011111 1111010111 11001101 1010011010 101011011 1011010011 11101011 1011111110 101011001 1010111010 01001001 1110011110 01111101 1010110010 11011111 110001010 01111101 110010010 01011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, of
Anaphora
i, the, through
Anadiplosis
you