Analysis of The Blue Mountains
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Above the ashes straight and tall,
Through ferns with moisture dripping,
I climb beneath the sandstone wall,
My feet on mosses slipping.
Like ramparts round the valley's edge
The tinted cliffs are standing,
With many a broken wall and ledge,
And many a rocky landing.
And round about their rugged feet
Deep ferny dells are hidden
In shadowed depths, whence dust and heat
Are banished and forbidden.
The stream that, crooning to itself,
Comes down a tireless rover,
Flows calmly to the rocky shelf,
And there leaps bravely over.
Now pouring down, now lost in spray
When mountain breezes sally,
The water strikes the rock midway,
And leaps into the valley.
Now in the west the colours change,
The blue with crimson blending;
Behind the far Dividing Range,
The sun is fast descending.
And mellowed day comes o'er the place,
And softens ragged edges;
The rising moon's great placid face
Looks gravely o'er the ledges.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KXKX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 01010101 1111010 1101011 1111010 1110101 0101110 110010101 01001010 01011101 111110 01011101 1100100 01110101 11010010 11010101 0111010 11011101 1101010 0101011 0101010 1001011 0111010 01010101 0111010 010111001 0101010 01011101 11010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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