Analysis of Everyone's Friend
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
“Nobody's enemy save his own”—
(What shall it be in the end?)—
Still by the nick-name he is known—
“Everyone’s Friend.”
“Nobody’s Enemy” stands alone
While he has money to lend,
“Nobody’s Enemy” holds his own,
“Everyone’s Friend”
“Nobody’s Enemy” down and out—
Game to the end—
And he mostly dies with no one about—
“Everyone’s Friend.”
Scheme | abaBabaB cbcB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100111 1111001 11011111 11 1100101 1111011 1100111 11 1100101 1101 0110111101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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