Analysis of To My Mother

John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933



Once more the Christian festival is near,
And I, for whom each day repeats all days
Continuously in ecstasy of praise,
Love's birthday lasting through the unending year,
Am dreaming how the spirit draws me sheer
From farthest wandering in the illusive maze
To that white centre whose creative blaze
Spun me aloft and sets me tremulous here.
And since all heaven is figured in my heart,
As in a dewdrop ere it change and live
There shines the glory of the eternal dome,
Mother, to you the showering meteors dart
Of free affection, fancies fugitive,
And flare, with increasing heat and splendour, home.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101010011 0111110111 01000010011 1110100101 1101010111 110100000101 1111010101 11010111001 01110110011 100111101 11010100101 101101001001 1101010100 0110101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 595
Words 106
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 483
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Le Gay Brereton

John Le Gay Brereton was an Australian poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in 1928. more…

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