Analysis of The Statue of Our Queen
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
PRIDE, selfishness in every line,
And on its face a frown,
It stands, a sceptre in its hand,
And points forever down.
And who will kneel? The unemployed!
Small homage pay, I ween,
The only men who gather ’neath
The Statue of our Queen.
I’d scarcely wonder if the sun,
That rises with good grace,
Should sink and leave the day undone
At sight of such a face.
But no! The day will still have birth
In all its golden sheen,
When antiquarians unearth
The Statue of our Queen.
Then if you’d have us loyal bide
As we have loyal been,
Great Parkes! for love of England, hide
The Statue of our Queen.
| Scheme | abxbxacD efefcdcD gxgD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110001001 011101 11010011 010101 0111001 110111 01011101 011101 11010101 110111 11010101 111101 11011111 011101 1101 011101 11111101 111101 11111101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 587 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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