Analysis of Welcome
George Essex Evans 1863 (London) – 1909 (Toowoomba)
Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea,
We welcome thee!
Thy ensign floats above our harbour-mouth.
A fairy’s hand
Has decked the great Queen City of the South.
By arch and roof, in bannered street and stand,
The vast crowd waits.
The cannon thunder greeting from the strand.
But in our hearts a deeper note vibrates—
The loving welcome of a loyal land.
’Tis the same race that from the iron North
Went faring forth,
Flying the flag of England at the fore;
Nor saw again
The masted city, with its ceaseless roar,
The flower-flecked meadow and the leafy lane,
The steepled hill,
Or ivied ruin rising from the plain,
But for a sign that they remembered still,
Built Greater Britains over all the main.
For thee, and her who comes with thee to grace
Our land and race,
Five million hearts beat with a welcome leal,
North, South and West.
Not in a day was built this Commonweal!
Slow, with our lives, we built it; nor confes’t
How stern our fears,
Thro’ drought and flood, in fever and unrest.
Its tale: the courage of laborious years.
And for a seal: the life-blood of our best.
Is she not fair whose morning thrills the East?
Youngest, not least,
Of all those Britains that one isle has sown,
One faith impearled
In world-wide union. We can hold our own—
’Gainst us in vain all envious shafts are hurled
If still we be
The Sons of Freedom, ’neath one flag unfurled,
Co-heirs of Fame and Wardens of the Sea,
One tongue, one race, one heart before the world!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (48%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 11011100101 1101 11010110101 011 1101110101 110101101 0111 0101010101 10101010110 0101010101 1011110101 1101 1001110101 1101 0101011101 0101100101 011 111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1100111111 10101 1101110101 1101 10011111 1110111111 11101 1101010001 11010101001 01010111101 1111110101 1011 1111011111 111 01110111101 11011100111 1111 0111011101 1111010101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,446 |
Words | 270 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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