Analysis of Ballarat
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
The digger's cultured daughter:
Her youth was wildly free.
Now by the placid water
Of tree-girt Wendouree
She walks, a gracious lady,
Where sculptured beauty gleams
By verdant paths and shady,
And dreams her golden dreams.
Her father was a digger,
Bearded and blunt and crude,
His hand quick to the trigger
Should tyranny intrude.
With lifts of sudden riches
He heaped his hoyden lass,
Whose flowering new bewitches
With beauty all who pass.
For she has sown her gardens
To hide the scars of greed,
And, where the old dump hardens,
Springs many a fruitful seed.
And, as she gathers graces
In loveliness to last,
Serenity replaces
A turbulence long past.
Her father was a miner,
Great in his day and age;
But here to ideals finer
She shapes her heritage.
Until it spreads in glamor,
A wonder to behold
Of peace come after clamor,
Of grace that followed gold.
Scheme | ABAABCBC ADADXECE FGFGHIHI AXAXAJAJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 011101 1101010 1111 1101010 110101 1101010 010101 0101010 100101 1111010 110001 1111010 11111 110011 110111 1111010 110111 0101110 1100101 0111010 0111 0100010 010011 0101010 101101 1110110 110100 0111010 010101 1111010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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