Analysis of The Australian Sunrise
James Lister Cuthbertson 1851 – 1910
The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free,
The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night,
Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light;
Still in the dying darkness, still in the forest dim
The pearly dew of the dawning clung to each giant limb,
Till the sun came up from ocean, red with the cold sea mist,
And smote on the limestone ridges, and the shining tree-tops kissed;
Then the fiery Scorpion vanished, the magpie's note was heard,
And the wind in the she-oak wavered, and the honeysuckles stirred,
The airy golden vapour rose from the river breast,
The kingfisher came darting out of his crannied nest,
And the bulrushes and reed-beds put off their sallow gray
And burnt with cloudy crimson at dawning of the day.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011100111101 01010010011101 01010101010101 10010100110001 1001010100101 01011010111101 10111110110111 01101100010111 101001001001111 001001110001001 010101110101 01011011111 00101111111 0111010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 825 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 652 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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