Analysis of Poverty
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
I hate this grinding poverty—
To toil, and pinch, and borrow,
And be for ever haunted by
The spectre of to-morrow.
It breaks the strong heart of a man,
It crushes out his spirit—
Do what he will, do what he can,
However high his merit!
I hate the praise that Want has got
From preacher and from poet,
The cant of those who know it not
To blind the men who know it.
The greatest curse since man had birth,
An everlasting terror:
The cause of half the crime on earth,
The cause of half the error.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100 110101 01110101 0101110 11011101 1101110 11111111 101110 11011111 1100110 01111111 1101111 01011111 101010 01110111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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