Analysis of Black and White
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
They fights their fights and they hunt their game,
As they did before the white man came,
Far in the unexplored Outback,
Where still Australia's mostly black.
They little know of white men's laws,
Or of Australia's cherished cause,
Or any of that bag of tricks
Of policies or politics.
Yet, tho' they little dream of it,
Our wild black brothers do their bit;
For while they hanker for a fight
They help to keep Australia white.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111101111 111010111 100011 11010101 11011111 11010101 11011111 1100110 11110111 101110111 11110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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