Analysis of The Dawn Dance
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
What do you think I saw to-day when I arose at dawn?
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn!
Bobbing here, and bowing there, gossiping away,
And how I wished that you were there to see the merry play!
But you were snug abed, my boy, blankets to your chin,
Nor dreamed of dancing birds without or sunbeams dancing in.
Grey Thrush, he piped the tune for them. I peeped out through the glass
Between the window curtains, and I saw them on the grass -
Merry little fairy folk, dancing up and down,
Blue bonnet, yellow skirt, cloaks of grey and brown,
Underneath the wattle-tree, silver in the dawn,
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn.
Scheme | aAbb ccdd eeaA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111110111 11010110101 101010110001 01111101110101 1101011110111 1111010111100 11110111111101 01010100111101 101010110101 11010111101 01010110001 11010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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