Analysis of Untitled

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



When his heart is growing bitter and his hair is growing grey,
And he hears the debt-collector knocking several times a day,
And the shrill voice of the Missus, blame, reiterate, accuse—
Then the poet who was famous feels inclined to damn the muse— .....

When he hears a sudden rapping—rapping at his chamber door,
Then he knows it's no good trying to write poems any more,
Then he bursts from out his chamber and he grabs his battered hat,
And he cadges Two Bob somewhere and gets beered up on his pat.


Scheme AABB CCDD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111110100111101 011010101010101 00111010101001 101011101011101 111010101011101 111111101110101 111111100111101 0111110111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 510
Words 94
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 196
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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