Analysis of Pejar Creek
Dame Mary Gilmore 1865 (Crookwell, New South Wales) – 1962 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Deep in the meadow grass
Easy stand the cattle,
Lightly lock the young bulls
In a mimic battle,
Pride gathers with each shock,
Every break and rally -
That’s where the Pejar runs,
Runs like a slip of silver through the valley.
Softly as a thrush sings
In the morning hushes,
Softly sing the waters
Round the reedy rushes,
Softly at the sand-bar,
Softly at the sally -
That’s where the Pejar runs,
Runs like a slip of silver through the valley.
Where awakes the morning
To dapple all the hills,
Where dewdrop, shaken,
Pendant slides and spills,
Where the golden bugles
Sunset calls reveille -
That’s where the Pejar runs,
Runs like a slip of silver through the valley.
Where the springtime blossoms
Like a mellow laughter,
Over all the grasses,
Over ridge and rafter,
Over all the tree-tops,
Down each ferny valley -
That’s where the Pejar runs,
Runs like a slip of silver through the valley.
Where the Pejar rises
Springs the Wollondilly,
Twinned upon the mountains
Babbling brook and ghyllie;
Where the bridge-heads rumble
Side by side they dally -
Out where the Pejar runs,
Runs like a slip of silver through the valley.
Scheme | abxbxcD CxaxexcDC xfxfxbDC xgegxcD Cebdb bcdC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10011 101010 101011 001010 110111 1001010 11011 11011101010 101011 00101 101010 101010 101011 101010 11011 11011101010 11010 11101 1110 10101 101010 111 11011 11011101010 10110 101010 101010 101010 101011 11110 11011 11011101010 10110 101 101010 100101 101110 111110 11011 11011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,099 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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