Analysis of The Author's Farewell to the Bushmen
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Some carry their swags in the Great North-West,
Where the bravest battle and die,
And a few have gone to their last long rest,
And a few have said: Good-bye!
The coast grows dim, and it may be long
Ere the Gums again I see;
So I put my soul in a farewell song
To the chaps who barracked for me.
Their days are hard at the best of times,
And their dreams are dreams of care—
God bless them all for their big soft hearts,
And the brave, brave grins they wear!
God keep me straight as a man can go,
And true as a man may be!
For the sake of the hearts that were always so,
Of the men who had faith in me!
And a ship-side word I would say, you chaps
Of the blood of the Don’t-give-in!
The world will call it a boast, perhaps—
But I’ll win, if a man can win!
And not for gold nor the world’s applause—
Though ways to the end they be—
I’ll win, if a man might win, because
Of the men who believed in me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101100111 10101001 0011111111 0011111 011101111 1010111 111110011 1011111 111110111 0111111 111111111 0011111 111110111 0110111 1011011011 10111101 0011111111 10110110 011110101 11110111 011110101 1110111 111011101 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 900 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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