Analysis of The Golden Whistler
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Golden bird whose golden voice,
When the summer days wax long
Cheery optimist from choice
Bids the feathered world rejoice
With full many a varied song
From the tree-tops flinging free
Golden bursts of melody.
Golden notes for golden hours
Where the sunlit waters gleam,
And the fragrant wattle flow'rs
Swoon in scented golden show'rs
To the bosom of the stream,
Singing, swinging, fluting high
None so gay, so glad as I.
Golden in the dawn's first hush
Sounds my matin, loud and long,
With a sweet, spontaneous rush,
Vying with harmonious thrush
For the bushlands Crown of Song
As the golden eye grows dim,
Sounds my joyous vesper hymn.
Golden minstrel, justly framed,
Greeted ere with grateful words
Long ere this my song has shamed
Him who fatuously named
This a land of songless birds
Seek you solace, seek you balm,
Hearken to my golden psalm.
Scheme | ABAABCC XDAADEE FBFFBGG HIHHIXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 1010111 1010011 1010101 11100101 1011101 1011100 10111010 101101 0010101 1010101 1010101 101011 1111111 1000111 111101 10101001 10101001 101111 1010111 1110101 1010101 1011101 1111111 1111 101111 1110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 830 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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