Analysis of Republican Pioneers

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



We're marching along, we're gath'ring strong'
We place on our right reliance,
We fling in the air, for all who care,
Our first loud notes of defiance!
We fling in the air,
For all who care,
Our first loud notes of defiance!

Laugh long and loud, you toady crowd,
At the men you call benighted,
In spite of your sneers, we are pioneers
Of "Australian States United"!
In spite of your sneers, We are pioneers
Of "Australian States United"!

Not long we'll stand as an outlaw band,
And be in our country lonely,
For soon to the sky shall ring our cry,
Our cry of "Australia only"!
For soon to the sky
Shall mount our cry,
Our cry of "Australia only"!

And we'll sleep sound in Australian ground,
'Neath the blue-cross flag star lighted,
When it freely waves o'er the grass-grown graves
Of the pioneers united!
When it floats and veers
O'er the pioneers
Of "Australian States United"!


Scheme xabAbbA xxCDCD xefEffE xdxdccD
Poetic Form
Metre 110011111 111101010 110011111 101111010 11001 1111 101111010 1101111 10111010 011111101 10101010 011111101 10101010 11111111 010101010 1110111101 101101010 11101 11101 101101010 011100101 10111110 11101100111 1001010 11101 10001 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 885
Words 160
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 7, 7
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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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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