Analysis of The Heritage Of Ease
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Are we so flabby, and are we so soft?
I have pondered the question long and oft;
And happy-go-lucky we may appear
When the fat and easy days are here,
When it's easy come and it's easy go,
And there's never a long, hard row to hoe.
But exceedingly hard and remarkably tough
Are the terms that fit when the days grow rough,
And Australia faces the jobs ahead
That fall in the seasons of stress and dread.
And the sturdier stuff of the pioneers
Has not all gone with the old, stern years.
And the tasks we faced and the loads we bore,
When the folly of nations brought us war,
Were not too many and not too great
To bend our backs or to halt our gait.
For the same old metal they tried anew,
And then, as ever, the stuff rang true.
But the soft times came; and the seed we sowed
On the days we travelled the easy road,
We must harvest now, as we all repent
Of a flabbiness passed to a Government
And nurtured there, while we rage and rear
To be up and waging the fight once more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 1110010101 0101101101 101010111 1110101101 0110011111 101001001001 1011110111 0010100101 1100101101 0010011001 111110111 0011100111 1010110111 011100111 11101111101 1011101101 011100111 1011100111 1011100101 1110111101 101110100 010111101 1110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 962 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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