Analysis of The Rose
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
We love the land when the world goes round,
And deep, deep down in her thorny ground,
Where nobody comes, and nobody knows,
We love the Rose. Oh! we love the Rose.
And none to tell us, and none to teach
By the western hedge or the shelving beach,
But all of us know what everyone knows,
We love the Rose. Oh! we love the Rose.
We love the rose when our day is dead,
And they lay their roses upon our bed;
Too late! Too late! in our last repose!
But we love the Rose. Ah! we love the Rose.
Scheme | aabB ccbB ddbb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110110111 011100101 111011 110111101 011110111 1010110101 111111101 110111101 1101110111 01111001101 1111010101 1110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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