Analysis of The Western Stars
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
On my blankets I was lyin’
Too tired to lift my head,
An’ the long hot day was dyin’
An’ I wished that I was dead.
From the West the gold was driven.
I watched the death of day,
An’ the distant stars of Heaven
Seemed to draw my heart away.
| Scheme | ABAB ACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110111 1101111 1011111 1111111 10101110 110111 10101110 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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