Analysis of The Magpie Lark
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
By lagoons and reedy places,
Where the little river races
By the lips of dreaming pools
Where the soothing water cools
Many a verdant slope and hollow,
Here my blithesome way I follow.
Anywhere that waters glisten
Pause a little while and listen.
You will hear my plaintive note
O'er the placid mirror float
Tho' nought know I of plaint or fret:
'Pierrot! Pierrette! Pierrot! Pierrette!'
Pierrot am I, light hearted fellow,
Be the day morose or mellow;
And pierrette, my dainty wife,
Adopts a like gay view of life;
We dance; we dance amid the sedges,
Dance by duplicated edges
Of the peaceful little ponds;
Now I bow, and she responds;
And then we dance together there,
Rise aloft, and dance on air;
Rising, falling, calling yet:
'Pierrot! Pierrette! Pierrot! Pierrette!'
Thistledown was ne'er so light
As our dainty, dancing flight;
Gay pied pipers, trim and neat;
Joy is in our wings, our feet;
Grace is in our every pose . . .
We dance, we dance till, at day's close,
When the pool's dark mirrors limn
Twilit glory at the brim
Trees and opalescent sky
We dance away; and as we fly
Our call comes faint and fainter yet:
'Pierrot!. Pierrette! .. Pierrot! ...'
Scheme | aabbccddeefE ccggaahhiifE jjkkxxdxllfe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 10101010 1011101 1010101 100101010 1111110 1011010 10101010 1111101 10010101 11111111 1111 11111010 10101110 011101 01011111 11110101 1110010 1010101 1110101 01110101 1010111 1010101 1111 11111 11010101 1110101 110101101 110101001 11111111 1011101 110101 1011 11010111 101110101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,138 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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