Analysis of Illa Creek
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
A strong sea-wind flies up and sings
Across the blown-wet border,
Whose stormy echo runs and rings
Like bells in wild disorder.
Fierce breath hath vexed the foreland's face,
It glistens, glooms, and glistens;
But deep within this quiet place
Sweet Illa lies and listens.
Sweet Illa of the shining sands,
She sleeps in shady hollows,
Where August flits with flowerful hands,
And silver Summer follows.
Far up the naked hills is heard
A noise of many waters,
But green-haired Illa lies unstirred
Amongst her star-like daughters.
The tempest, pent in moaning ways,
Awakes the shepherd yonder,
But Illa dreams unknown to days
Whose wings are wind and thunder.
Here fairy hands and floral feet
Are brought by bright October;
Here, stained with grapes and smit with heat,
Comes Autumn, sweet and sober.
Here lovers rest, what time the red
And yellow colours mingle,
And daylight droops with dying head
Beyond the western dingle.
And here, from month to month, the time
Is kissed by peace and pleasure,
While Nature sings her woodland rhyme
And hoards her woodland treasure.
Ah, Illa Creek! ere evening spreads
Her wings o'er towns unshaded,
How oft we seek thy mossy beds
To lave our foreheads faded!
For, let me whisper, then we find
The strength that lives, nor falters,
In wood and water, waste and wind,
And hidden mountain altars.
Scheme | ABAB CACX DEDE FGFG HBHB IBIB JKJK LBLB MFMX NGNG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (90%) Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 01111101 0101110 11010101 1101010 1111011 11101 11011101 111010 1110101 1101010 1101111 0101010 11010111 0111010 111111 0101110 01010101 101010 1110111 1111010 11010101 1111010 11110111 1101010 11011101 010110 0111101 0101010 01111101 1111010 1101011 010110 1111101 011011 1111111 1110110 11110111 0111110 01010101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,298 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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