Analysis of A Sonnet dedicated to Sir George Gipps
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
My country! I am sore at heart for thee!
An in mine ear, like a storm-heralding breeze,
A voice against thee gathers warningly!
Lo, in what hands seem now thy destinies!
Hands grasping all, through party means, to seize
Some private benefit: and what should be
Thy Freedom's dawn, but gives ascendancy
To lawless Squatters, and the Hacks of these!
Woe waits a land, where men are wise and brave
For naught but self! When even the best aside
Are thrusting honesty to don the knave!
Where worth is trampled on by vulgar pride!
And where all beauty of the mind, decried,
Hangs dying o'er a Mammon-delved grave.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 10111011001 0101110100 1011111100 1101110111 1101000111 1101110100 1101000111 1101111101 11111100101 1101001101 1111011101 0111010101 110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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