Analysis of Over the Ranges and Into the West
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Let others sing praise of their sea-girted isles,
But give me the bush with its limitless miles;
Then it’s over the ranges and into the West,
To the scenes of wild boyhood; we love them the best.
We’ll ride and we’ll ride from the city afar,
To the plains where the cattle and sheep stations are;
Where stockmen ride hard, and the drover starts forth
On his long, lonely journey ’way up in the North.
When your money is low, and your luck has gone down,
There’s no place so lone as the streets of a town;
There’s nothing but worry, and dread and unrest,
So we’ll over the ranges and into the West.
The drought in the West may spread ruin around,
But the dread drought of life in the city is found;
And I’d far sooner tread on the long dusty way,
Where each one you meet says, “Good day, mate, good day.”
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111111 11101111001 111001000101 10111111101 11011101001 101101001101 1111001011 111101011001 111011011111 11111101101 11011001001 111001000101 01001111001 101111001011 011101101101 11111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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