Analysis of Harry Stephens
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
So the world of odds and evens ceased to trouble Harry Stephens,
and the niggard road no longer echoes to his lonely tread.
For another bushman found him with his ‘bluey’ wrapped around him, sleeping like a bushman, only sleeping with the mighty dead.
And the shadows were upon him, and they found a ticket on him – just a relic of a battle that was lately lost and won.
And it told the stray Camboonian he’d been loyal to his union (right or wrong) – he had been loyal to the strike of ‘91’.
| Scheme | ABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101011101010 001011101011101 1010101111101011101010101010101 001001101101011101010101110101 01101111101110111111101011 |
| Characters | 511 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 76 |
| Words per line (avg) | 19 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 381 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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