Analysis of The Two Samaritans and the Tramp
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
A TRAMP was trampin’ on the road—
The afternoon was warm an’ muggy—
And by-and-by he chanced to meet
A parsin ridin’ in a buggy.
Said he: “As follerers ov the Loard,
To do good offices we oughter!”
An’ from a water-bag he poured,
An’ guv the tramp, a drink er water.
The parsin he went rattlin’ ’ome
To ware his fam-i-lee was thrivin’,
The tramp went on until he met
A bullick-driver, bullick drivin’—
“It’s bilin’ ’ot,” the driver sed
As soon’s the dirty tramp drawed nearer,
And from a little keg he poured,
And giv the tramp a pint of beer—“ah!”
(P.S.—The “ah” is meant to stand for the tramp a-drinking ov it.)
I ain’t agin the temperance cause,
Nor yet no advocate ov drinkin’—
I only tells the yarn because—
Well, at the time it somehow seemed
Ter kind ov set me thinkin’.
Scheme | ABXBACDC XEXEACDX X XEXXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 00111110 01011111 0110010 1111101 11110011 11010111 110101010 011111 11111111 01110111 011011 1110101 110101110 01010111 010101111 101111110101011 110101001 11110011 11010101 1101111 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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