Analysis of Prelude - From The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
I have gathered these stories afar
In the wind and the rain,
In the land where the cattle-camps are,
On the edge of the Plain.
On the overland routes of the west,
When the watches were long,
I have fashioned in earnest and jest
These fragments of song.
They are just the rude stories one hears
In sadness and mirth,
The records of wandering years,
And scant is their worth.
Though their merits indeed are but slight,
I shall not repine
If they give you one moment's delight,
Old comrades of mine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011001 001001 001101011 101101 10101101 101001 111001001 11011 111011011 01001 00111001 01111 111001111 1111 111111001 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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