Analysis of The New Chum Jackeroo
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Let bushmen think as bushmen will,
And say whate’er they choose,
I hate to hear the stupid sneer
At New Chum Jackaroos.
He may not ride as you can ride,
Or do what you can do;
But sometimes you’d seem small beside
The New Chum Jackaroo.
His share of work he never shirks,
And through the blazing drought,
He lives the old things down, and works
His own salvation out.
When older, wiser chums despond
He battles brave of heart—
’Twas he who sailed of old beyond
The margin of the chart.
’Twas he who proved the world was round—
In crazy square canoes;
The lands you’re living in were found
By New Chum Jackaroos.
He crossed the deserts hot and bare,
From barren, hungry shores—
The plains that you would scarcely dare
With all your tanks and bores.
He fought a way through stubborn hills
Towards the setting sun—
Your fathers all and Burke and Wills
Were New Chums, every one.
When England fought with all the world
In those brave days gone by,
And all its strength against her hurled,
He held her honour high.
By Southern palms and Northern pines—
Where’er was life to lose—
She held her own with thin red lines
Of New Chum Jackaroos.
Through shot and shell and solitudes,
Wherever feet have gone,
The New Chums fought while eye-glass dudes
And Johnnies led them on.
And though he wear a foppish coat,
And these old things forget,
In stormy times I’d give a vote
For Cuffs and Collars yet.
Scheme | XABACXCB ADXD CEXE FAFA GHGH IJIJ KLKL MAMA AXXX NONO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 01111 11110101 1111 11111111 111111 10111101 0111 11111101 010101 11011101 110101 1101011 110111 11111101 010101 11110111 010101 01110001 1111 11010101 110101 01111101 111101 11011101 010101 11010101 0111001 11011101 011111 01110101 11011 11010101 11111 11011111 1111 110101 010111 01111111 01111 0111011 011101 01011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,390 |
Words | 258 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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