Analysis of The Wattle
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
I saw it in the days gone by,
When the dead girl lay at rest,
And the wattle and the native rose
We placed upon her breast.
I saw it in the long ago
(And I've seen strong men die),
And who, to wear the wattle,
Hath better right than I?
I've fought it through the world since then,
And seen the best and worst,
But always in the lands of men
I held Australia first.
I wrote for her, I fought for her,
And when at last I lie,
Then who, to wear the wattle, has
A better right than I?
Scheme | ABXB XAXA CDCD XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11100111 1011111 001000101 110101 11100101 011111 0111010 110111 11110111 010101 1100111 110101 11101110 011111 11110101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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