Analysis of To “Doc” Wylie
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
THOUGH doctors may your name discard
And say you physicked vilely,
I would I were as good a bard
As you a doctor, Wylie!
How often, when your skill subdued
The fever ranging highly,
You won a bushman’s gratitude,
Though little more, Doc Wylie!
How oft across the regions wide
Where scrub for many a mile lay
The bushman rode, as bushmen ride,
To seek your aid, Doc Wylie!
But now, when bushman’s wife or child
Lies ill and suffering direly,
He’ll need to ride a weary while
Before he finds Doc Wylie.
I hope where they have made your bed,
And where these verses I lay,
They’ll raise a board above your head—
And write your name—Doc Wylie!
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DBDB XBBB EBEB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11011101 01111 11101101 1101010 11011101 0101010 110110 1101110 11010101 11110011 01011101 1111110 1111111 1101001 11110101 0111110 11111111 0111011 11010111 0111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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