Analysis of Bushmen
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Rugged men and tough men these,
Men of the lonely ways,
Hard and sturdy as their trees
Where the timbered ranges raise
Their ragged crests to rake the sky;
For the call has come again,
As oft it came in the years gone by,
And the Bush sends forth her men.
Silent men, with eyes alert,
Tramping the hillside steep,
Where the giant trees at the mountain's skirt
Their lonely vigil keep;
Fighting their way where the tangled fern
Covers an ancient track,
Plying the lore that the bushmen learn
Thro' the lonely years outback.
The men of the forest are out once more,
Searching early and late.
As they searched thro' many a day before,
For many a missing mate.
Or a wandering stranger gone astray
In the land of the towering tree,
That has become for all today
The land of tragedy.
And, while the task is a task for men,
Ne'er will they call a stop.
They will tramp the wild bushland again,
And tramp until they drop,
With never a thought for the hours ill-spared
From the labor of the day
To the men of the forest whom fate has dared,
There's nought but to obey.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL DMDMNKNK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 110101 1010111 101101 11011101 1011101 111100111 0011101 1011101 10011 1010110101 110101 101110101 101101 100110101 101011 0110101111 101001 1111100101 1100101 1010010101 001101001 11011101 011100 010110111 111101 11101101 010111 11001101011 1010101 10110101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,036 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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