Analysis of The Listening Week
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
This is the listening week of the year
Listening-in.
A-cock and alert is the national ear
Listening-in.
All over the land in the country towns,
From the back of the Leeuwin to Darling Downs,
Layers of 'quids' or the odd half-crowns,
They are listening-in.
On the far-flung farms they are round each set,
Listening-in.
The work and the worry they all forget,
Listening-in.
Wherever an aerial soars in space
To the Cup, or the Oaks or the Steeplechase,
To the roar of the ring and the lure of the race
They are listening-in.
In the far outback there are sun-tanned men,
Listening-in.
Where the woolshed stands by the drafting pen
Listening-in.
Old Dad's come in from the Ninety Mile;
He scored on the Cup and he wears a smile,
And he 'reckons this game is well worth while'
So he's listening in.
To the edge of the desert the sound-waves go;
And, listening-in,
Ned of the Overland, Saltbush Joe
Listening-in
Recall the giants of years long past,
And the loneliness of these spaces vast;
But they reckon that life's worth living at last
With this listening-in.
Scheme | xAxAbbbA cAcAdddA eAeAfffa gagAhhha |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001101 1000 01001101001 1000 1100100101 1011011101 101110111 111000 1011111111 1000 0100101101 1000 0101100101 1011011010 101101001101 111000 001111111 1000 101110101 1000 111010101 1110101101 0110111111 111000 10110100111 01000 1101011 1000 10101111 0010011101 11101111011 111000 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,042 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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