Analysis of Introduction – A Glimpse of Boyhood
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
“Boys out there by the western creeks,
Who hurry away from school,
To climb the spurs of the breezy peaks,
Or dive in the shaded pool”
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 1100111 110110101 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 143 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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