Analysis of Finis. Time.

Joseph Furphy 1843 (Yering, Victoria) – 1912 (Claremont)



O Time! Time! Time!
Thou wondrous mystery!
Within whose rune and rhyme
Lies all Man's history
Before Creation's birth
Or yet the Heavens were made
With darkness all was girth,
Till word Creative said
'Let there be Light;'
And lo! from out the deep
In grandeur and with might
Rolled back the ages of sleep,
And born was Night-and-Day,
And stars together sang
Their glad harmonic lay
And all Creation rang
With 'Glory to God in the Highest.'
Now let the strain resound
And Man to God the nighest
With Light and Life be crowned,
Till in the time appointed,
Unfolding from Man's breast
Be Life with Love anointed
And God made manifest.


Scheme ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJKDKLMLM
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 110100 011101 111100 0111 1101001 110111 110101 1111 011101 001011 1101011 011101 010101 110101 010101 110110010 11011 011101 110111 1001010 010111 1111010 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 639
Words 117
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 497
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Furphy

Joseph Furphy is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic. more…

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