Analysis of Sights
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
I saw a singer singing to a crowd,-
Singing of laughing life,- and all the while
He sang in tones so shrilly loud,
Not one man had a smile.
I saw a fiddler from a broken plain
Playing his weeping fiddle,- sweet and clear.
He sang of Death and Cries and Pain,-
But no one shed a tear.
I saw a whistling soldier, still and wan,
Firing his rifle from a fearful place,-
But all the time a dying man
Looked long upon his face.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101010101 1011010101 1101111 111101 11010010101 1011010101 11110101 111101 1101010101 1011010101 11010101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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