Analysis of Transports
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
Behind us lay the homely shore
With youthful memories aureoled;
A sky of dazzling blue before,
We sailed a sea of molten gold.
To our old haven we return;
By smoky hills as grey as mud
We see the sullen sunset burn
Malignant on a lake of blood.
Yes, we return: but memory roams
A foul, bleak age of pain that yields
The smoke and flame of ruined homes,
The muck of cannon-pitted fields.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 1101001 011100101 11011101 110110101 11011111 1101011 01010111 110111001 01111111 01011101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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