Analysis of The World is Full of Kindness
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
The World is full of kindness—
And not the poor alone;
We Christians in our blindness
Bow down to hearts of stone;
The clever, bitter cynic,
Whose poisoned “soul” is dead,
And, like the rotten clinic,
Raves, helpless, on his bed.
The world is full of kindness—
But not the White alone;
The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone;
But all men are his brothers,
In spite of all the “Powers,”
And the things he does for others
Shew whiter souls than ours.
The world is full of kindness—
But not the Lean alone;
The Fat man in his blindness
Bows down, and not to stone;
But when a friend’s in trouble,
And an honest friend at that,
Then I’d turn to the Fat man
In spite of all his fat.
The world is full of kindness
If it is let alone,
And men’s hearts in their blindness
Are neither ice nor stone.
In spite of all pretences,
We get it from Above;
In spite of all defences—
Red blood, kind hearts, and love.
Scheme | Ababcdcd Ababeeee Ababxfxf Ababagag |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110 010101 11001010 111111 0101010 110111 0101010 110111 0111110 110101 0100110 111101 1111110 0111010 00111110 1101110 0111110 110101 0110110 110111 1101010 0110111 1111011 011111 0111110 111101 0110110 110111 01111 111101 01111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 919 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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