Analysis of An Australian Advertisement
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
WE WANT the man who will lead the van,
The man who will pioneer.
We have no use for the gentleman,
Or the cheating Cheap-Jack here;
We have no room for the men who shirk
The sweat of the brow. Condemn
The men who are frightened to look for work
And funk when it looks for them.
We’ll honour the man who can’t afford
To wait for a job that suits,
But sticks a swag on his shoulders broad
And his feet in blucher boots,
And tramps away o’er the ridges far
And over the burning sand
To look for work where the stations are
In the lonely Western land.
He’ll brave the drouth and he’ll brave the rain,
And fight his sorrows down,
And help to garden the inland plain
And build the inland town;
And he’ll be found in the coming years
With a heart as firm and stout,
An honoured man with the pioneers
Who lead the people out.
Scheme | XXXXABAB XCXCDEDE FGFGHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 011101 111110100 1010111 111110111 0110101 0111101111 0111111 11011101 1110111 110111101 011011 010110101 0100101 111110101 0010101 110101101 011101 01110011 01011 011100101 1011101 1111001 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 814 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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