Analysis of Send Round the Hat
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush –
Should be simple and plain to a dunce:
"If a man’s in a hole you must pass round the hat –
Were he jail-bird or gentleman once."
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 11101101101 111001101 101001111101 011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 192 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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