Analysis of Dan Wasn’t Thrown from His Horse
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
THEY SAY he was thrown and run over,
But that is sheer nonsense, of course:
I taught him to ride when a kiddy,
And Dan wasn’t thrown from his horse.
The horse that Dan rode was a devil—
The kind of a brute I despise,
With nasty white eyelashes fringing
A pair of red, sinister eyes.
And a queerly-shaped spot on his forehead,
Where I put a conical ball
The day that he murdered Dan Denver,
The pluckiest rider of all.
’Twas after the races were over
And Duggan (a Talbragar man)
And two of the Denvers, and Barney
Were trying a gallop with Dan.
Dan’s horse on a sudden got vicious,
And reared up an’ plunged in the race,
Then threw back his head, hitting Dan like
A sledge-hammer, full in the face.
Dan stopped and got down, stood a moment,
Then fell to the ground like a stone,
And died about ten minutes after;
But they’re liars who say he was thrown.
Scheme | ABCB XDED XFAF AGCG XHEH XIAI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111110110 11111011 111111010 0111111 011111010 01101101 1101101 01111001 001111110 11101001 011110110 011011 110010010 010011 01101010 01001011 111010110 01111001 111111011 01101001 110111010 11101101 010111010 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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