Analysis of A Song of the Republic
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Sons of the South, awake! arise!
Sons of the South, and do.
Banish from under your bonny skies
Those old-world errors and wrongs and lies.
Making a hell in a Paradise
That belongs to your sons and you.
Sons of the South, make choice between
(Sons of the South, choose true),
The Land of Morn and the Land of E'en,
The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green,
The Land that belongs to the lord and the Queen,
And the Land that belongs to you.
Sons of the South, your time will come –
Sons of the South, 'tis near –
The "Signs of the Times", in their language dumb,
Fortell it, and ominous whispers hum
Like sullen sounds of a distant drum,
In the ominous atmosphere.
Sons of the South, aroused at last!
Sons of the South are few!
But your ranks grow longer and deeper fast,
And ye shall swell to an army vast,
And free from the wrongs of the North and Past
The land that belongs to you.
Scheme | ABAAXB CBXCCB DEDDDE FBFFFB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 110101 101101101 111100101 10010010 10111101 11011101 110111 0111001111 011100111 01101101001 00110111 11011111 110111 0110101101 110100101 110110101 0010010 11010111 110111 1111100101 011111101 0110110101 0110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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