Analysis of John Farrell
George Essex Evans 1863 (London) – 1909 (Toowoomba)
The pen falls from his nerveless hand,
The light is fading from his eyes,
The brain that nobly served his land
Darkens and dies.
No, never dies! From hour to hour
The burning thought is living still;
Onward it speeds with gath’ring power
To strengthen and fulfil.
Build him no mockery of stone,
Nor shame him with your idle praise;
He liveth in his work alone
Through all our days.
Sleep, heart of gold, ’twas not in vain
You loved the struggling and the poor
And taught in sweet yet strenuous strain
To battle and endure.
The lust of wealth, the pride of place,
Were not a light to guide thy feet,
But larger hopes and wider space
For hearts to beat.
O, brother, dead! Thus, one by one,
Our broken swords remain to tell
The fight is o’er, the work is done,
Sleep! “It is well.”
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGXGX HIHIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111 01110111 01110111 101 1101110110 01011101 10111110 11001 11110011 11111101 1101101 11101 11111101 110100001 010111001 110001 01110111 01011111 11010101 1111 11011111 101010111 01110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 775 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 301 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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