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.


Scheme AABBCCDD
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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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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