Analysis of Fall In, My Men, Fall In
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
The short hour's halt is ended,
The red gone from the west,
The broken wheel is mended,
And the dead men laid to rest.
Three days have we retreated
The brave old Curse-and-Grin –
Outnumbered and defeated –
Fall in, my men, fall in.
Poor weary, hungry sinners,
Past caring and past fear,
The camp-fires of the winners
Are gleaming in the rear.
Each day their front advances,
Each day the same old din,
But freedom holds the chances –
Fall in, my men, fall in.
Despair's cold fingers searches
The sky is black ahead,
We leave in barns and churches
Our wounded and our dead.
Through cold and rain and darkness
And mire that clogs like sin,
In failure in its starkness –
Fall in, my men, fall in.
We go and know not whither,
Nor see the tracks we go –
A horseman gaunt shall tell us,
A rain-veiled light shall show.
By wood and swamp and mountain,
The long dark hours begin –
Before our fresh wounds stiffen –
Fall in, my men, fall in.
With old wounds dully aching –
Fall in, my men, fall in –
See yonder starlight breaking
Through rifts where storm clouds thin!
See yonder clear sky arching
The distant range upon?
I'll plan while we are marching –
Move on, my men - march on!
Scheme | abxbacaC dedefcfC xgfghcxC xihijcjC kCkcklkl |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01101110 011101 0101110 0011111 1111010 011101 100010 101110 1101010 110011 01101010 110001 1111010 110111 1101010 101110 111010 011101 1101010 10100101 1101010 011111 0100110 101110 1101110 110111 0101111 011111 1101010 0111001 01101110 101110 111110 101110 110110 111111 1101110 010101 1111110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,201 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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