Analysis of Behind the Bar - a Desecration of Tennyson
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
Gray eyes and gamboge hair!
One barmaid of 'The Crown'!
Ah, will that beaming siren still be there
When I go next to town? -
When over-night much spirit I had quaffed,
How I was wont to bless
That nymph who, smiling, mixed my morning draught
Of B. and S.!
That holiday has gone!
Now wintry breezes blow
In fitful gusts about my hut upon
The Warrego.
Hard times foretell that for a 'down-South' spree
The day is distant far;
And I no more, in Sydney town, may see
That girl behind the bar.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD XXXXEFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 11101 1111010111 111111 1101110111 111111 1111011101 1101 11011 110101 0101011101 01 1101110111 011101 0111010111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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