Analysis of Statue of Robert Burns
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
To a town in Southern land
Light of purse I come and lone;
And I pause awhile, and stand
By a pedestal of stone;
And I bend my head and bow
While my heart to Scotland turns,
For I know I’m standing now
‘Neath the form of Robbie Burns.
Round the corners of the lips
Lines of laughter seem to run;
From the merry eye there slips
Just a twinkle as of fun.
Living in the sculptor’s art,
Set in stone, mine eye discerns
All the beauty, and a part
Of the soul, of Robert Burns.
One of Caledonia’s sons,
Coming lonely to the land.
Well might think he’d met a friend
Who would take him by the hand,
And the tears spring to his eyes,
While his heart for friendship yearns;
And from out that heart he cries,
“Heaven bless ye, Bobbie Burns.”
“Unto me, as unto you,
Has a hard world done ill turns;
And the sorrows that you knew
I am learning Bobbie Burns.
But I’ll keep my heart above
Until, after many moons,
I return to friends I love,
And to banks line bonnie Doon’s.”
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD XAXAHDHD IDIDJXJD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1111101 0110101 1010011 0111101 1111101 1111101 1011101 1010101 1110111 1010111 1010111 1000101 1011101 1010001 1011101 1111 1010101 1111101 1111101 0011111 1111101 0111111 1011101 1011101 1011111 0010111 1110101 1111101 0110101 1011111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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