Analysis of Wangaratta
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
At the meeting of the waters
Where the dark tree shadows play
Wangaratta's sons and daughters
Dream the drowsy hours away;
Placid see the season's greeting
Winter storm and summer sun
Wed, to flow henceforth as one.
Where two northbound rivers meeting,
Long since prone to sudden dangers
When, to dim her dawning pride,
Morgan and his wild bushrangers
Thronged her pleasant countryside,
Now in her quiet graveyard resting
Lies old shame and that rash lad,
Where a mate, on tin attesting,
Pleads that 'he was not all bad.'
Crime and she are almost strangers
Now, since those ill doers died.
Bishops reign where once bushrangers
Slew her peace and shamed her pride.
And content within her waxes
In this pious atmosphere
Where naught now save threat-worn taxes
Wakens echoes of past fear.
At the meeting of the waters
Where tree shadows shift and sway,
Nothing lingers here that slaughters
Her bucolic calm away.
Done at last with Youth's adventure
Quiet lady slow to move,
And wealthier grown she lives down censure
As she drifts in one straight groove.
Scheme | Ababcddc aeaecfcf aeaexgxg Ababhihi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 101111 11010 10101001 10101010 1010101 1111111 11101010 11111010 1110101 100111 101010 10010110 1110111 10111010 1111111 1011110 1111101 101111 1010101 01001010 011010 11111110 110111 10101010 111101 10101110 0010101 11111010 1010111 0100111110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,030 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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