Analysis of The Muse of Australia

Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)



Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts,
And the torrent leaps down to the surges,
I have followed her, clambering over the clifts,
By the chasms and moon-haunted verges.
I know she is fair as the angels are fair,
For have I not caught a faint glimpse of her there;
A glimpse of her face and her glittering hair,
And a hand with the Harp of Australia?

I never can reach you, to hear the sweet voice
So full with the music of fountains!
Oh! when will you meet with that soul of your choice,
Who will lead you down here from the mountains?
A lyre-bird lit on a shimmering space;
It dazzled mine eyes and I turned from the place,
And wept in the dark for a glorious face,
And a hand with the Harp of Australia!


Scheme axaxbbbC dedefffC
Poetic Form
Metre 101101011001 0010111010 1110011001 101011010 11111101011 11111011101 01101001001 0011011010 11011111011 111010110 11111111111 1111111010 0111101001 11011011101 01001101001 0011011010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 742
Words 145
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 280
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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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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