Analysis of The Rush to London
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
You’re off away to London now,
Where no one dare ignore you,
With Southern laurels on your brow,
And all the world before you.
But if you should return again,
Forgotten and unknowing,
Then one shall wait in wind and rain,
Where forty cheered you going.
You’re off away to London, proved,
Where fair girls shall adore you;
The poor, plain face of one that loved
May never rise before you.
But if you should return again,
When young blood ceases flowing,
Then one shall wait in wind and rain,
Where forty cheered you going.
It may be carelessly you spoke
Of never more returning,
But sometimes in the London smoke,
You’ll smell the gum leaves burning;
And think of how the grassy plain
Beyond the fog is flowing,
And one that waits in shine or rain,
Where forty cheered you going.
Scheme | ababCdED xbxbCdED fdfdedeD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1111011 11010111 0101011 11110101 0100010 11110101 1101110 11011101 1111011 01111111 1101011 11110101 1111010 11110101 1101110 11110011 1101010 10100101 1101110 01110101 0101110 01110111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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