Analysis of I'll tell you what you Wanderers
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
I'll tell you what you wanderers, who drift from town to town;
Don't look into a good girl's eyes, until you've settled down.
It's hard to go away alone and leave old chums behind-
It's hard to travel steerage when your tastes are more refined-
To reach a place when times are bad, and to be standing there,
No money in your pocket nor a decent rag to wear.
But be forced from that fond clasp, from that last clinging kiss-
By poverty! There is on earth no harder thing than this.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100111111 11010111011101 11110101011101 1111011111101 11011111011101 11001101010111 1111111111101 11001111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 370 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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