Analysis of Last Landfall
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
'Outgoing: the Ooonah for Burnie'....
How often the radio spoke;
Till the stout little ship and her journey
Grew into a mild sort of joke.
But no longer her donkeyman grapples
His slings by the sweet island shore
For a cargo of timber or apples.
The Oonah goes sailing no more.
No more; save the landfall she's making,
The last, on her funeral trip
To the land where she goes for her breaking
Grim graveyard of many a ship.
And a few, it may be, will go grieving
To know of that busy craft's fate,
Who many times hooved with her heaving
As Oonah rolled over the strait.
There many proud, tall-masted schooners
She passed in the night, ships o' sail;
While stars winked o'er fond honeymooners
Who whispered soft words by her rail.
And tourists and grave politicians,
Who knew the old Oonah full well,
In all sorts of weather conditions,
Have had many a story to tell.
And many a soul who sailed with her,
Since Oonah first breasted the foam,
Has taken the long voyage thither,
To every man's ultimate home.
Who knows now what mystical journey
Those sail, to the sounds of high mirth
As a ghost-ships heads hull-down for Burnie,
With a complement not of the earth.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG HIHIJKJK XLDLAMAM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 1100101 1011010010 10101111 11100110 11101101 101110110 0111011 11101110 01101001 1011111010 1111001 0011111110 11111011 110111010 1111001 110111010 11001111 111101100 11011101 01001010 1101111 011110010 111001011 010011110 1111001 11001101 110011001 111110010 11101111 101111111 101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,140 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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