Analysis of Shadows Before
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
"Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign
On fair islands that we would command;
But clouds that are darker and denser than these
Have sailed from an Isle in the Northern Seas
And rest on our Southern Land.
Low in dust is our Goddess of Liberty hurled
At our feet, and the time is at hand,
When we, the proud sons of the southern world,
Beneath a proud banner of freedom unfurled
And true to each other shall stand.
If e'er in the ranks of the Right we advance;
Though our enemies come like a flood,
We'll meet them like lions, aroused from our trance,
And show that a streak of the Olden Romance
Still runs in our commonplace blood.
Scheme | XABBA CACCA DEDDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001101011 111011101 11111001011 1111100101 01110101 1011101011001 1101001111 1101110101 01011011001 01111011 110001101101 1101001101 111110011101 01101101001 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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