Analysis of To a Pair of Blucher Boots
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
OLD acquaintance unforgotten,
Though you may be “ugly brutes”—
Though your leather’s cracked and rotten,
Worn-out pair of Blucher boots.
’Tis the richer man before you,
Dearer leathers grace his feet;
’Twas the better man that wore you
In the tramps through dust and heat!
Oft rebuffed by “super’s” snarling,
When I asked him for a “show”,
On that long tramp to the Darling
In the days of long ago;
Tell me, if you know it, whether,
As I sadly tramped away,
Bore I heavy on your leather,
Worn-out pair of Bluchers, say?
Though your leather’s cracked and rotten,
Though you may be ugly brutes,
I’ll preserve you unforgotten,
Worn-out pair of Blucher boots!
Scheme | aBAB cdcd efef gxgb ABaB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101 1111101 11101010 111111 10101011 1010111 10101111 0011101 10111010 1111101 11111010 0011101 11111110 1110101 11101110 111111 11101010 1111101 10111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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