Analysis of The Country Girl
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
The Country Girl reflects at last –
And well in her young days –
For she is learning very fast,
The worth of City ways.
The emptiness of Tailors men
The women’s paltry strife
The Sham of ‘Smart Society’
Compared with Country Life.
The novelty wore off at length,
And flattered at the Ball,
She things of one who has the strength
And brains above them all.
She things of men who Live and Work
For sweetheart and for wife.
And though it be as far as Bourke’
Are true to Country Life
| Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDEFCFC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 010011 11110101 011101 01001101 01101 01110100 011101 01001111 010101 11111101 010111 11111101 11011 01111111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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