Analysis of The Flag of our Destinies
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!
And the six-starred flag of our destinies on every port unfurled!
God grant from Greed or the dust of sleep – or the right by a lie maintained –
From all save our blood, if we must, we’ll keep the silver and blue unstained!
We yield no praise and we speak no blame, for our history ‘s weeds and flowers –
But the work of a hundred years we claim as our father’s work and ours!
Through peace to prosper or war to save – wherever the future runs –
May God make noble and strong and brave the hearts of our father’s sons.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110100110100100101101 001111101001100101 11111011110110101 111101111110100101 11110111111010011010 1011010111110101010 1111011110100101 11110010101110101 |
| Characters | 619 |
| Words | 121 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 58 |
| Words per line (avg) | 15 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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