Analysis of Accent Conscious
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Trouble brews along the border for the word has got around
That blokes an' coves an' coots must mind their tongues;
Out about the long dry stages
Where the willie-willie rages
Strange sounds are issuing from leathern lungs.
Vowels, consonants and diphthongs in the old bark hut take place
Of the talk of clips or cattle or 'wot won the 'urdle race.'
For the world grows regimented and the olden orders pass
With those ancient heroes that we knew of old.
Out beyond the sandy ranges
Culture grows and fashion changes
And a bloke has got to talk the way he's told.
For the craze of 'standardising' has Australia in its grip,
And Lawson's friends, Joe Wilson, and his mates have got the pip.
These old battlers, so accustomed to the old Australian drawl,
Find it hard to knuckle down to modern ways.
Tho' the purists may deride them,
'Twas their speech identified them,
For they talked the Aussie lingo all their days.
But the Man from Snowy River strives to change his 'Oi' to 'I;'
And Clancy of the Overflow now wears an old school tie.
I have long since sought the reason why all men should be as peas
In speech, in thought, in action, e'en in strife.
Uniformity around them
Serves but further to confound them,
Since it washes all the color out of life.
But the bloke who beat the favorite now sports jodhpurs with an air,
And the Man from Ironbark marcels his hair.
Scheme | XABXACC XDBBDEE XFGGFHH XIGGIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101011101 1111111111 10101110 10101010 111100111 10100010011111 10111110111011 10111000010101 11101011111 10101010 10101010 00111110111 101111010011 01011100111101 11110101010101 11111011101 10101011 1110101 11101010111 101110101111111 0101010111111 111110101111111 01010101101 0100011 11101011 11101010111 101110100111111 00111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,350 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 269 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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