Analysis of The Pink Carnation
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
I may walk until I’m fainting, I may write until I’m blinded,
I might drink until my back teeth are afloat,
But I can’t forget my ruin and the happy days behind it,
When I wore a pink carnation in my coat.
Oh, I thought that time could conquer, and I thought my heart would harden,
But it sends a sudden lump into my throat,
When I think of what I have been, and the cottage and the garden,
When I wore a pink carnation in my coat.
God forgive you, girl, and bless you! Let no line of mine distress you –
I am sorry for the bitter lines I wrote;
But remember, and think kindly, for we met and married blindly,
When I wore a pink carnation in my coat.
Scheme | xaxA babA xaxA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110111011101110 11101111101 1110111000101011 11101010011 1111111001111110 11101010111 1111111100100010 11101010011 1011101111111011 11101010111 1010011011101010 11101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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