Analysis of Bendigo
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
A golden maid whose golden voice
Calls to the northern lands,
Of riches she has had her choice.
Twin treasures to make men rejoice
Came easy to her hands:
The golden harvest of broad fields,
Or that dark gift of sudden yields
Won from her golden sands.
But men have scorned her worthier pride
In rich and fruitful soil;
And, spreading desolation wide,
Ranged all her verdant countryside
To ravage and despoil.
And now grey wastes of tortured earth
Await the glory of rebirth
Thro' nature's patient toil.
She has the wish, she has the will
To gather beauty round.
Though gold's fierce lure stays with her still,
She lives to plan and strive until
Springs from this barren ground
Earth's only treasure, scorned of yore,
And smiling verdure clothes once more
Full many a bare, bleak mound.
She guards the gateway of the north
The broad lands of the sun.
Hospitably her hand goes forth,
Eager to vindicate the worth
Of happier tasks begun,
And in gay gardens to express
A newer urge to loveliness
And kinder virtues won.
A virile lass, in no wise strange,
Of true Australian breed:
Where drab days into sunlight charge
Across the Great Dividing Range
She scatters now the seed
That shall bring yields a thousandfold
When gardens count for more than gold
And peace outvalues greed.
Scheme | ABAABCCB DEDDEFFE GHGGHIIH JKJFKXAK LMXLMDXM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 01011101 110101 11011101 11011101 110101 01010111 11111101 110101 111101001 010101 0100101 1101010 11001 01111101 01010101 110101 11011101 110101 11111101 11110101 111101 11010111 0101111 1100111 1101101 011101 10111 10110001 1100101 00110101 010111 010101 01010111 110101 1110111 01010101 11101 111101 11011111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,246 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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