Analysis of Nineteen Nine
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
There's a light out there in the nearer east
In the dawn of Nineteen Nine;
There’s the old ghost light in the salty yeast
Where the black rocks meet the brine.
Here’s the same old strife and toil in vain—
Here’s the same old hope and doubt—
Here’s the same old useless care and pain—
And the sea is my way out—
My dear—
The sea is my way out.
’Tis a grey and a sad old sea for me—
With a growing grey head too.
Oh, the heads were brown and the eyes were bright
When the sea was white and blue.
It was round the world and home again,
We could turn and turn about,
And the sea means exile now in vain,
But the sea is my way out—
My dear—
The sea is my way out.
Scheme | ababcdcdEDfghgidcdED |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 1011100101 0011111 1011100101 1011101 101110101 1011101 101110101 0011111 11 011111 1010011111 1010111 1010100101 1011101 111010101 1110101 00111101 1011111 11 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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