Analysis of Hawkers

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



Dust, dust, dust and a dog –
Oh! The sheep-dog won’t be last.
When the long, long, shadow of the old bay horse
With the shadow of his mate is cast.
A brick-brown woman with the brick-brown kids,
And a man with his head half-mast,
The feed-bags hung and the bedding slung,
And the blackened bucket made fast
Where the tailboard clings to the tucker and things –
So the hawker’s van goes past.


Scheme ABCBDBEBFB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111001 1011111 1011110111 10111111 0111010111 00111111 011100101 00101011 1011101001 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 76
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 298
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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