Analysis of Hawkers
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Dust, dust, dust and a dog –
Oh! The sheep-dog won’t be last.
When the long, long, shadow of the old bay horse
With the shadow of his mate is cast.
A brick-brown woman with the brick-brown kids,
And a man with his head half-mast,
The feed-bags hung and the bedding slung,
And the blackened bucket made fast
Where the tailboard clings to the tucker and things –
So the hawker’s van goes past.
Scheme | ABCBDBEBFB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111001 1011111 1011110111 10111111 0111010111 00111111 011100101 00101011 1011101001 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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