Analysis of Anzac Cove
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
There’s a lonely stretch of hillocks:
There’s a beach asleep and drear:
There’s a battered broken fort beside the sea.
There are sunken trampled graves:
And a little rotting pier:
And winding paths that wind unceasingly.
There’s a torn and silent valley:
There’s a tiny rivulet
With some blood upon the stones beside its mouth.
There are lines of buried bones:
There’s an unpaid waiting debt :
There’s a sound of gentle sobbing in the South.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1010101 10101010101 1110101 0010101 0101111 10101010 10101 11101010111 1111101 1101101 10111010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 348 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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