Analysis of Jack Cornstalk as a Drover

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



“Dry scrub and dusty clearing
The long, hot, drowsy day;
The land line ever nearing
And ever far away.


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101010 011101 0111010 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 109
Words 21
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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