Analysis of The Waradgery Tribe
Dame Mary Gilmore 1865 (Crookwell, New South Wales) – 1962 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Harried we were, and spent,
broken and falling,
ere as the cranes we went,
crying and calling.
Summer shall see the bird
backward returning;
never shall there be heard
those, who went yearning.
Emptied of us the land;
ghostly our going;
fallen like spears the hand
dropped in the throwing.
We are the lost who went,
like the cranes, crying;
hunted, lonely and spent
broken and dying.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DBDB ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101001 10010 110111 10010 101101 10010 101111 11110 101101 101010 101101 10010 110111 10110 101001 10010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 376 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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