Analysis of Comrades 0' Mine



If I call, will you hear me, O comrades of mine,
When the sky in the East holds the grey of the dawn,
When the soft wind is stirring the plumes of the pine
And the shadow goes gliding beneath like a fawn?
If I call, will you hear me, 0 long-ago friends,
As you pass to the stockyard with bridle on arm,
Where the song of the magpie to Heaven ascends
And the buddah-bush blooms with its delicate charm?
If I call, will you hear me? Heart calling to heart
Across the wide water, across the long years.
In the life that you live have I, too, not a part?
Do I share not its laughter, its hopes and its fears?
If my saddle hangs idle, if no more I bind
The spurs of adventure to gleam on the heel,
Along Memory's paths may I stray not and find
The beat of bare hoofs and the jingle of steel?
Where we rode shall I ride not? Through scrubs where we raced
With the rein lying loose as some favourite flew
Through the ragged grey stems, through the boughs interlaced
Have ye ridden one ride where I rode not with you?
If I call, will you hear ? - Nay; for Time will be king,
And the wind on wide water bears voices away.
The spurs as they glisten, the hoofs where they ring,
Are the servants of Youth at the dawn of the day.


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Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 11111111111 101001101101 101111001101 00111001101 11111111011 11110111011 10110111001 00111111001 111111111011 01011001011 001111111101 111111011011 111011011111 01101011101 0111111101 01111001011 111111111111 1011011111 10101110101 111011111111 111111111111 001111011001 01111001111 101011101101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,223
Words 246
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 935
Words per stanza (avg) 245
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Henry Ogilvie

William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman. more…

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