Analysis of Mildura
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Where the sunlight, burning down,
Lights her luscious orange groves,
Lights the river and the town;
Where the placid Murray roves;
Where each shining summer gives
Life to loveliness serene;
Here the tropic lady lives
'Mid her almost tropic scene.
Palm trees spreading to the sun,
Dusk of lemon, sheen of vine;
Vitamin and vigour won
And imprisoned, till the wine,
Gushing from the purple grape
In the press, allows again
Golden sunlight to escape
These the dower of her domain.
Gay and glad and vigorous,
Winning wealth from summertime,
Glorious gifts she gleans for us
Dwellers in a colder clime;
Conjuring from her kindly earth
Golden fruits to give men joy
Well this lady knows the worth
Of her Arcadian employ.
Tropic lady! Well she knows
Whence her brave abundance comes.
Wealth, where her broad river flows,
Bordered by its spreading gums;
Comes with waters winding down
From the cold lands of the east,
Suffering her sun-kissed town
To spread for us a kingly feast.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGXGX HIHIJKJK LMLMANAN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 1010101 1010001 1010101 1110101 11101 1010101 101101 1110101 1110111 100011 0010101 1010101 0010101 101101 1011001 1010100 101110 10011111 1000101 10010101 1011111 1110101 1010001 1010111 1010101 1101101 1011101 1110101 1011101 1000111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 952 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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