Analysis of A New Year's Toast
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Here's to every Aussie fellow,
Who refused to show the yellow
When depression's clammy hand
Cast its shadow o'er the land.
Here's to them who never altered
When the timid feared and faltered,
But with dogged confidence
Backed their nation's sound good sense.
Here's to them who, ne'er reviling,
Took the knock and came up smiling -
Battlers with their steadfast gaze
Fixed ahead on better days.
Aussie cobbers, strong thro' striving,
Chastened by ill-luck are thriving;
Now that better days are near
Here's a prosperous New Year!
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDEE DDFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111001010 10111010 11101 1111001 11111010 10101010 111100 1110111 111111 10101110 11111 1011101 1011110 10111110 1110111 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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