Analysis of The Route March
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?
Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past?
In the sunshine and the rain,
As they’ll never sing again—
Hear the little school-girls singing as our troops went swinging past?
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?
Did you hear the children singing for the first man and the last?
As they marched away and vanished,
To a tune we thought was banished—
Did you hear the children singing for the future and the past?
Shall you hear the children singing, O my brothers?
Shall you hear the children singing in the sunshine or the rain?
There’ll be sobs beneath the ringing
Of the cheers, and ’neath the singing
There’ll be tears of orphan children when
Our Boys come back again!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101110 1110101011011101 001001 1110101 1010111011011101 111010101110 111010101011001 11101010 10111110 111010101010001 111010101110 11101010001101 11101010 10101010 111110101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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