This is an analysis of Uncle Harry by Henry Lawson.
Oh, never let on to your own true love
That ever you drank a drop;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabccc XdXdceXE bfbffece Xgegbebe cfffXecE
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101101111 1101101 1101100111 1100111 110011111 1101111 1111110101 1111101 1000101111 1011101 00100110111 10101001 1001001111 1110101 111101100 1110101 1101101111 101001111 00101000101 1100101 011101101 1011001 111100111 1111101 1101101101 1010111 0011110111 00111101 111010001101 1110111 10101110101 1110101 011110111 1110111 001110101 11111111 010011111 1100111 11100100111 1110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
you, your, for
Anaphora
that, and, 'twas