Analysis of The League Of Youth
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
There was never a hint, when I was a boy,
That the joy of the wilds might bring man joy;
Never a thought that a wild thing slain
Might wake in the slayer pain for pain.
We were savages all, with the hunter's thrill
In the lure of the chase and the lust of the kill;
And the bud on the bough, and the bird in the nest
Were beautiful things to be possessed.
But a worthier thing comes now to the earth,
Since pity in minds of the young has birth.
'Tis the glorious gift, that wisdom brings,
Of knowing and loving all lovely things:
Of loving and sharing with all the boon
Of the glad free things that may teach us soon
The gift of living, as glad and free,
As bird and blossom in Arcady.
'Oh, youth is heedless,' the elders say,
'Youth is callous and cruel in play,'
Say they, forgetting that all youth heeds
Comes down through lauding of elders' deeds.
But the law of savage - of fang and claw
Gives what was in the end to a worthier law;
And man, emerging from ways uncouth,
Sees visions anew in the League of Youth.
Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGXD HHIIJJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111101 1011011111 100110111 110010111 10100110101 001101001101 001101001001 010011101 10100111101 1100110111 1010011101 1100101101 1100101101 1011111111 011101101 1101001 11110101 111001001 110101111 111101101 1011101101 111001101001 010101111 1100100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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