Analysis of A Ballade of Home
Enid Derham 1882 (Hawthorn) – 1941
LET others prate of Greece and Rome,
And towns where they may never be,
The muse should wander nearer home.
My country is enough for me;
Her wooded hills that watch the sea,
Her inland miles of springing corn,
At Macedon or Barrakee—
I love the land where I was born.
On Juliet smile the autumn stars
And windswept plains by Winchelsea,
In summer on their sandy bars
Her rivers loiter languidly.
Where singing waters fall and flee
The gullied ranges dip to Lorne
With musk and gum and myrtle tree—
I love the land where I was born.
The wild things in her tangles move
As blithe as fauns in Sicily,
Where Melbourne rises roof by roof
The tall ships serve her at the quay,
And hers the yoke of liberty
On stalwart shoulders lightly worn,
Where thought and speech and prayer are free—
I love the land where I was born.
Princes and lords of high degree,
Smile, and we fling you scorn for scorn,
In hope and faith and memory
I love the land where I was born.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 01111101 01110101 11010111 01011101 0111101 1111 11011111 11010101 01111 01011101 010101 11010101 0110111 11010101 11011111 01100101 11110100 11010111 01110101 00011100 11010101 11010111 11011111 10011101 10111111 01010100 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 985 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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