Analysis of The Band

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)



Hey, there!  Listen awhile!  Listen awhile, and come.
Down in the street there are marching feet, and I hear the beat of a drum.
Bim!  Boom!!  Out of the room!  Pick up your hat and fly!
Isn't it grand?  The band!  The band!  The band is marching by!

Oh, the clarinet is the finest yet, and the uniforms are gay.
    Tah, rah!  We don't go home -
    Oom, pah!  We won't go home -
Oh, we shan't go home, and we can't go home when the band begins to play.

Oh, see them swinging along, swinging along the street!
Left, right! buttons so bright, jackets and caps so neat.
Ho, the Fire Brigade, or a dress parade of the Soldier-men is grand;
But everyone, for regular fun, wants a Big-Brass-Band.

The slide-trombone is a joy alone, and the drummer!  He's a treat!
    So, Rackety-rumph!  We don't go home -
    Boom, Bumph!  We won't go home -
Oh, we shan't go home, and we can't go home while the band is in the street.
    Tooral-ooral, Oom-pah!
                                The band is in the street!


Scheme AABB CDDC EEFF EDDEXE
Poetic Form
Metre 111001100101 10011110101101101 111101111101 10110101011101 100110101001011 111111 111111 111111011111010111 1111001100101 111011100111 101001101011010111 1101100110111 0101101010010101 1111111 111111 111111011111011001 1111 011001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 993
Words 183
Sentences 28
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 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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