Analysis of Australian Federation
William Gay 1865 (Scotland) – 1897
FROM all division let our land be free,
For God has made her one: complete she lies
Within the unbroken circle of the skies,
And round her indivisible the sea
Breaks on her single shore; while only we,
Her foster children, bound with sacred ties
Of one dear blood, one storied enterprise,
Are negligent of her integrity.—
Her seamless garment, at great Mammon’s nod,
With hands unfilial we have basely rent,
With petty variance our souls are spent,
And ancient kinship underfoot is trod:
O let us rise, united, penitent,
And be one people,—mighty, serving God!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110111 1111010111 01001010101 010010001 1101011101 0101011101 111111010 1100100100 010101111 1111111 11010010111 01010111 1111010100 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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