Analysis of Stanzas

Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)



The sunsets fall and the sunsets fade,
But still I walk this shadowy land;
And grapple the dark and only the dark
In my search for a loving hand.

For it's here a still, deep woodland lies,
With spurs of pine and sheaves of fern;
But I wander wild, and wail like a child
For a face that will never return!

And it's here a mighty water flows,
With drifts of wind and wimpled waves;
But the darling head of a dear one dead
Is hidden beneath its caves.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0110011 111111001 0100101001 01110101 11101111 11110111 1110101101 101111001 011010101 1111011 1010110111 1100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 445
Words 91
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Kendall

Thomas Henry Kendall was a nineteenth-century Australian author and bush poet, who was particularly known for his poems and tales set in a natural environment setting. more…

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