Analysis of He’s Gone to England for a Wife
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
HE’S GONE to England for a wife
Among the ladies there;
And yet I know a lass he deemed
The rarest of the rare.
He’s gone to England for a wife;
And rich and proud is he.
But he was poor and toiled for bread
When first he courted me.
He said I was the best on earth;
He said I was “his life”;
And now he thinks of noble birth,
And seeks a lady wife!
He said for me alone he’d toil
To win an honest fame;
But now no lass on southern soil
Is worthy of his name!
I think I see his lady bride,
A fair and faultless face,
And nothing in her heart beside
The empty pride of race.
And she will grace his gilded home,
The wife his gold shall buy;
But will she ever dream of him,
Or love as well as I?
Scheme | AbxbAcxc dadaefef ghghxixi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 010101 01110111 010101 11110101 010111 11110111 111101 11110111 111111 01111101 010101 11110111 111101 11111101 110111 11111101 01011 01000101 010111 01111101 011111 11110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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