Analysis of Unwritten Books
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
It always seems the same old story –
No matter what grand heights are won –
We die with out best work unwritten,
We die with out best work undone.
Unwritten books, unpainted pictures
In millions are, beneath the sun.
We die, with our great thoughts unpublished,
We die with our best work undone.
| Scheme | XAAA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11101110 11011111 111111010 11111101 010101010 01010101 1111011010 111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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