Analysis of Ned’s Delicate Way
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Ned knew I was short of tobacco one day,
And that I was too proud to ask for it;
He hated such pride, but his delicate way
Forbade him to take me to task for it.
I loathed to be cadging tobacco from Ned,
But, when I was just on the brink of it;
‘I’ve got a new brand of tobacco”, he said –
“Try a smoke, and let’s know what you think of it.”
Scheme | ABAB CBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111110111 0111111111 11011111001 0111111111 111110111 1111110111 1101110111 10101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 357 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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