Analysis of Bacchus Marsh
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Here she bides, a buxom lady,
Blest by peace and great content;
Dwelling by her byways shady,
Where the elm trees boughs are bent;
Shutting out the world's wild clamor,
Lending to her streets a glamour,
Gracious and beneficent.
Fortune came to her full easy,
Asking little of man's toil;
So she prospered in those breezy
Days when wealth sprang from the soil
And kind earth, munificently,
As the placid seasons passed,
For man's fortune proffered gently
Rich and gracious gifts in plenty,
Drawn from out her storehouse vast.
Portly dame, untuned to trouble,
Destined through the years to be
While the ills of earth redouble
Sheltered in tranquility,
Asking neither fame nor glory,
And with quiet dilligence
Tending earth that tells the story
Of an age long gone and hoary,
And the young world's turbulence.
Brown hills, broody in the diatnce,
Fecund fields that won their worth
Out of nature's mad insistence
To remould her tortured earth
These have left their age-old traces
In the glacier's graven trail,
Thro' the wondrous green oasis
Where the pleasant river races
To the sea from this calm vale.
Scheme | ABABCCX ADADDEAAE FAFAAGAAG GHGHGIGGI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 1110110 1010110 1011111 10101110 10101010 100010 10110110 1010111 11100110 1111101 0111 1010101 11101010 10101010 111011 1011110 1010111 10111010 1000100 10101110 01101 10111010 11111010 0011100 1110001 111111 11101010 110101 11111110 0010101 10101010 10101010 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,077 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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