Analysis of Kerosine Bay
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
‘Tis strange on such a peaceful day
With white clouds flying o’er,
That foreign boats are in the bay
As prisoners of war.
The Harbour, where they quietly lay;
Smiles brightly as of yore.
Where never angry shot was fired
To alter peaceful plans;
Where British lumpers worked till tired
With Yacob and with Hans,
And ‘shouted’ when their work was done
For other ‘sailormans’.
And while we think of other lands
And what is doing there,
And while we think of what red hands
May wreak in our despair –
How can the Harbour be so blue,
And the sky above so fair?
Scheme | ABABAB CDCXXD EBEBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 111101 11011001 110011 010111001 110111 110101110 110101 11011110 11011 01011111 1101 01111101 011101 01111111 1101001 11010111 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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