Analysis of Laughing and Sneering
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
WHAT tho' the world does me ill turns
And cares my life environ;
I’d sooner laugh with Bobbie Burns
Than sneer with titl'd Byron.
The smile has always been the best;
’Tis stronger than the frown, sirs:
And Venus smiled the waves to rest;
She didn’t sneer them down, sirs.
| Scheme | ABAB CACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011111 01111 11011101 1111010 0111101 1101011 01010111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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