Analysis of A Backward Glance
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
IT IS well when you’ve lived in clover,
To mourn for the days gone by—
Would I live the same life over
Could I live again? Not I!
But, knowing the false from the real,
I would strive to ascend:
I would seek out my boyhood’s ideal,
And follow it to the end.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 111111010 1110111 11101110 1110111 11001101 111101 11111101 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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