Analysis of Dirrawan the Song-Maker
James Martin Devaney 1890 – 1976
Dirrawan went into the bush to spear waat,
but he forgot about waat the red wallaby.
he thought about dirridirri the small bird and deereeree the wagtail
he thought about wonning the lightning and tumberumba the thunder.
He did not spear anything at all.
Dirrawan went to the Long Brown Water to catch makora.
he thought about balleballea the silence of the night,
he thought about ballanda the long time ago.
He did not catch any fish, he brought back a new song to the gunyahs.
Scheme | AXBC B CAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 110101101100 110110110101 1101101001010 11111011 11101110111 11011010101 1101101101 1111101111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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