Analysis of On Visiting The Spot Where Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks First Landed In Botany Bay
Barron Field 1786 (London) – 1846 (Torquay)
Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land.
He saw the Indian village on that sand
And on this rock first met the simple race
Of Austral Indians who presumed to face
With lance and spear his musket. Close at hand
Is the clear stream from which his vent'rous band
Refreshed their ship; and thence a little space
Lies Sutherland, their shipmate; for the sound
Of Christian burial better did proclaim
Possession than the flag, in England's name.
These were the commelinae Banks first found;
But where's the tree, with the ship's wood-carved fame?
Fix, then, the Ephesian brass-'tis classic ground!
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Metre | 1101011101 11001010111 11010010111 0111110101 11010010111 1101110111 101111111 0111010101 110011101 11010010101 0101010101 1001111 1101101111 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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