Analysis of Morning Glory



Singing morning has begun.
Where the wooded ranges run
To far summits, there the snow
Lingers yet.  But down below
In the quiet, green-girt places,
Where full many a swift creek races
From the snow-lands to the sea,
Now breaks sudden harmony.

Where this tree-waned clearing dreams,
First a rosy promise be
As young dawn steels up the sky
Where the frozen ramparts lie.
Now, from dew-wet leaves a-glitter,
Comes a little drowsy twitter,
And the first swift spear of light
Wounds at last the stubborn Night.

Flashing now, bright javelins
Pierce the murk; and now begins
As Day's gleaming ranks deploy
Morning's canticle of joy.
First a sleepy chuckle, breaking,
Tells of Laughing Jack awaking,
Pausing; then, from tree to tree,
Leaps unbound hilarity.

Here's the signal .... Morning's hush
Sweetness shatters, as Grey Thrush,
Veiling with the seraphim,
Lifts his liquid matin hymn.
Golden Whistler joins him then,
Now Red Robin, now Blue Wren;
Magpie's trumpet, sounding, swelling,
Caps the eager chorus welling,
As a wealth of varied notes
Pours now from a hundred throats
Up to greet their lord, the Sun,
Morning, morning has begun!


Scheme AABBCCDD XDEEFFGG CXHHIEDD JJXXKKIILLAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 00101110 111001110 1011101 1110100 1111101 1010101 1111101 101011 11111010 10101010 0011111 1110101 10111 1010101 1110101 10111 10101010 111011 1011111 1010100 1010101 1010111 10101 111011 1010111 1110111 1101010 10101010 1011101 1110101 1111101 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,107
Words 189
Sentences 11
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 12
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 223
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1915 publication of The Sentimental Bloke sold 65,000 copies in its first year, and by 1917 he was the most prosperous poet in Australian history. Together with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, both of whom he had collaborated with, he is often considered among Australia's three most famous poets. While attributed to Lawson by 1911, Dennis later claimed he himself was the 'laureate of the larrikin'. When he died at the age of 61, the Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons suggested he was destined to be remembered as the 'Australian Robert Burns'. more…

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