Analysis of Sweethearts Wait on Every Shore
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
SHE SITS beside the tinted tide,
That’s reddened by the tortured sand;
And through the East, to ocean wide,
A vessel sails from sight of land.
But she will wait and watch in vain,
For it is said in Cupid’s lore,
“That he who loved will love again,
And sweethearts wait on every shore.”
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 1110101 01011101 01011111 11110101 11110101 11111101 01111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 295 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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