Analysis of Benjamin Bandicoot
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
If you walk in the bush at night,
In the wonderful silence deep,
By the flickering lantern light
When the birds are all asleep
You may catch a sight of old Skinny-go-root,
Otherwise Benjamin Bandicoot.
With a snout that can delve and dig,
With claws that are strong as steel,
He roots like a pigmy pig
To get his evening meal,
For creeping creatures and worms and roots
Are highly relished by bandicoots.
Under the grass and the fern
He fashions his beaten track
With many a twist and turn
That wanders and doubles back,
And dogs that think they are most astute
Are baffled by Benjamin Bandicoot.
In the depth of the darkest night,
Without a star in the sky,
He'll come to look at a light,
And scientists wonder why:
If the bush is burning it's time to scoot
Is the notion of Benjamin Bandicoot.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHCC AIAICC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111 00100101 10100101 1011101 11101111011 1010010 10111101 1111111 1110101 111101 110100101 11010110 1001001 1101101 1100101 1100101 011111101 110110010 00110101 0101001 1111101 0100101 1011101111 1010110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 780 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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