Analysis of That Pretty Girl in the Army
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
“Now I often sit at Watty’s, when the night is very near
With a head that’s full of jingles – and the fumes of bottled beer;
For I always have a fancy that, if I am over there
When the Army prays for Watty, I’m included in the prayer.
“It would take a lot of praying, lots of thumping on the drum,
To prepare our sinful, straying, erring souls for Kingdom Come,
But I love my fellow-sinners! And I hope upon the whole,
That the Army gets a hearing when it prays for Watty’s soul.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101111011101 101111100011101 11110101111101 10101111010001 111011101110101 1011010101011101 111110100110101 10101010111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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