Analysis of The Little Native Rose
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
There is a lasting little flower,
That everybody knows,
Yet none has thought to think about
The little Native Rose.
The wattle and the waratah—
The world has heard of those;
But who, outside Australia, kens
The little Native Rose.
Yet first for faint, far off perfume,
That lives where memory goes;
And first of all for fadelessness—
The little Native Rose.
| Scheme | xabA baaA xaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 110101010 11001 11111101 010101 010001 011111 11110101 010101 11111101 1111001 011111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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