Analysis of The Call of the Bush
Dora Wilcox 1873 (Christchurch) – 1953 (Neutral Bay)
Three roads there are that climb and wind
Amongst the hills, and leave behind
The patterned orchards, sloping down
To meet a little country town.
And of these roads I'll take the one
That tops the ridges, where the sun
Is tempered by the mountain-breeze
And dancing shadows of the trees.
The road is rough - but to my feet
Softer than is the city street;
And then the trees! - how beautiful
She-oak and gum - how fresh and cool!
No walls there are to hamper me;
Only in blue infinity
The distant mountain-ramparts rise
Beneath the broad arch of the skies.
And in that high place I shall hear
The wild birds' singing, soft and clear;
And horse-bells tinkling as of old
In amongst the wattles' gold
Far-off is the ocean tide;
But there across the country-side
Roll waves of bush that rise and fall
To break against the mountain-wall.
And every little farm is seen
An island in a sea of green;
And every little farm at night
Flings through the dark its beacon-light -
There in the silence of the hills,
I shall find peace that soothes and stills
The throbbing of the weary brain, -
For I am going home again.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEXX FFGG XXHH IIJJ KKLL MMXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (63%) |
Metre | 11111101 01010101 01010101 11010101 01111101 11010101 11010101 0101101 01111111 10110101 01011100 11011101 11111101 10010100 0101011 01011101 00111111 01110101 011100111 0010101 1110101 11010101 11111101 11010101 010010111 11000111 010010111 11011101 10010101 11111101 01010101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,095 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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