Analysis of At the Melting of the Snow
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
There's a sunny Southern land,
And it's there that I would be
Where the big hills stand,
In the South Countrie!
When the wattles bloom again,
Then it's time for us to go
To the old Monaro country
At the melting of the snow.
To the East or to the West,
Or wherever you may be,
You will find no place
Like the South Countrie.
For the skies are blue above,
And the grass is green below,
In the old Monaro country
At the melting of the snow.
Now the team is in the plough,
And the thrushes start to sing,
And the pigeons on the bough
Sit a-welcoming the Spring.
So come, my comrades all,
Let us saddle up and go
To the old Monaro country
At the melting of the snow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 0111111 10111 0011 1010101 1111111 101110 1010101 1011101 1010111 11111 1011 1011101 0011101 001110 1010101 1011001 0010111 0010101 1010001 11111 1110101 101110 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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