Analysis of Wonthaggi
Where are the miners now,
Old before their time?
New to the work, the back-breaking work,
The ardent young men began, deep beneath the ground,
Hardened within the coal face,
Anxious wives waiting,
Gaining fuel for the nation,
Gambling with their lives,
In the toil of long ago.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Acrostic |
Metre | 110101 10111 110101101 010110110101 1001011 10110 10101010 100111 0011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 269 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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