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
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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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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