Analysis of Jack Cornstalk as a Poet
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
“Not from the seas does he draw inspiration,
Not from the rivers that croon on their bars;
But a wide, a world-old desolation –
On a dead land alone with the stars.
The long hot day gone over,
And starlight come again;
And I, weary rover,
Lie camped on One Tree Plain.
My saddle for a pillow,
I lie beneath the tree,
That softens to a willow,
In the moonlight over me.
I dream that I remember
A dim and distant day,
Beyond yon misty timber,
In the Home-world far away.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE CFCF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101111010 1101011111 101011010 101101101 0111110 01101 011010 111111 1101010 110101 110101 001101 1111010 010101 0111010 0011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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