Analysis of Australian Spring
Hugh McCrae 1876 (Melbourne) – 1958
The bleak faced Winter, with his braggart winds
(Coiled to his scrawny throat in tattered black),
Posts down the highway of his late domain,
His spurs like leeches in his bleeding hack.
He rides to reach the huge embattled hills
Where all the brooding summer he may lie
Engulfed in Kosciusko’s silent snow,
His shadow waving o’er the lofty sky.
And jolly Spring, with love and laughter gay
Full fountaining, lets loose her tide of bees
Upon the waking ember-flame of bloom
New kindled in the honey-scented trees.
The old, old man forsakes the chimney-hole,
Where erst he warmed his bones and lazy blood,
And, clasping Molly to his wheezing breast,
Triumphant floats, cock-whoop, upon the flood.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011101111 1111010101 110111101 1111001101 1111010101 1101010111 0101101 111010101 0101110101 11110111 0101010111 1100010101 011110101 1111110101 011011101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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