Analysis of As far as your Rifles Cover
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Do you think, you slaves of a thousand years to poverty, wealth and pride,
You can crush the spirit that has been free in a land that's new and wide?
When you've scattered the last of the farmer bands, and the war for a while is over,
You will hold the land – ay, you'll hold the land – the land that your rifles cover.
Till your gold has levelled each mountain range where a wounded man can hide,
Till your gold has lighted the moonless night on the plains where the rebels ride;
Till the future is proved, and the past is bribed from the son of the land's dead lover –
You may hold the land – you may hold the land just as far as your rifles cover.
| Scheme | AABB AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101011100101 11101011110011101 11100110101001101110 111011110101111010 11111011011010111 11111001110110101 10101100111101101110 1110111101111111010 |
| Characters | 666 |
| Words | 133 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 63 |
| Words per line (avg) | 16 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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