Analysis of Last Week
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Oh, the new-chum went to the backblock run,
But he should have gone there last week.
He tramped ten miles with a loaded gun,
But of turkey of duck saw never a one,
For he should have been there last week,
They said,
There were flocks of 'em there last week.
He wended his way to a waterfall,
And he should have gone there last week.
He carried a camera, legs and all,
But the day was hot and the stream was small,
For he should have gone there last week,
They said,
They drowned a man there last week.
He went for a drive, and he made a start,
Which should have been made last week,
For the old horse died of a broken heart;
So he footed it home and he dragged the cart --
But the horse was all right last week,
They said,
He trotted a match last week.
So he asked all the bushies who came from afar
To visit the town last week
If the'd dine with him, and they said "Hurrah!"
But there wasn't a drop in the whisky jar --
You should have been here last week,
He said,
I drank it all up last week!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111011 11111111 111110101 11101111001 11111111 11 10111111 11111010 01111111 1100100101 1011100111 11111111 11 1101111 1110101101 1111111 1011110101 11101101101 10111111 11 1100111 11110111101 1100111 1111101101 11100100101 1111111 11 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,003 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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