Analysis of From the Bush
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
The Channel fog has lifted –
And see where we have come!
Round all the world we've drifted,
A hundred years from "home".
The fields our parents longed for –
Ah! we shall ne'er know how –
The wealth that they were wronged for
We'll see as strangers now!
The Dover cliffs have passed on –
In the morning light aglow –
That our fathers looked their last on
A weary time ago.
Now grin, and grin your bravest!
We need be strong to fight;
For you go home to picture
And I go home to write.
Hold up your head in England,
Tread firm on London streets;
We come from where the strong heart
Of all Australia beats!
Hold up your head in England
However poor you roam!
For no men are your betters
Who never sailed from home!
From a hundred years of hardships –
'Tis ours to tell the cost –
From a thousand miles of silence
Where London would be lost;
From where the glorious sunset
On sweeps of mulga glows –
Ah! we know more than England,
And more than Europe knows!
Hold up your head in London,
However poor you come,
For no man is your better
Who never sailed from home!
Our "home" and foreign fathers,
Where none but men dared go,
Have done more for the White Man
Than England e'er shall know!
Scheme | abacdede fgfgxhih JkxkJclC xxxxxmjm xbiClgxg |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 0101110 011111 1101110 010111 01101011 111111 0111011 111101 0101111 0010101 110101111 010101 1101110 111111 1111110 011111 1111010 111101 1111011 110101 1111010 10111 1111110 110111 10101110 1101101 10101110 110111 1101001 11111 1111110 011101 1111010 10111 1111110 110111 10101010 111111 1111011 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,209 |
Words | 233 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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