Analysis of Dedication
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
Grant me a moment of peace,
Let me but open mine eyes,
Forgetting the empire of lies
And warfare's majestic increase
Of national folly and hate;
Ere I return to my fate,
Grant me a moment of peace.
To what is I would turn from what seems
From a world where men fall and adore
The god that Fear shuddering bore
To Greed in the desert of dreams,
Unholy, inhuman, impure;
From the State to the loves that endure,
To what is I would turn from what seems.
No man has been richer than I,
Though he staggered with infinite gold
And bought of whatever is sold
Of the beauty that money can buy.
In the wealth that is lost in the mart
And is stored in the innermost heart
No man has been richer than I.
Humbly, a pilgrim, I stood,
Weary and hungry and lame,
And out of the multitude came
Friends who were better than good,
Friends who would not be denied
Where by the palpitant tide
Humbly, a pilgrim, I stood.
Now to my army of friends
A handful of petals I fling,
Strays of perennial spring,
Weeds, but the lover who sends
Bled that each blossom might live.
This is myself that I give
Now to my army of friends.
Comrade in exile, to you
Chiefly the gift should belong,
You who will hear in my song
Echoes of days that we knew
Blue and deep-droning and clear
Far in the hills that are dear,
Comrade in exile, to you.
Pause and remember them now,
Plunge, as you dived in the stream,
To the sweet cool depth of your dream.
The drooping, sheltering bough,
The brown rock lettered above,
The still interfusion of love,
Pause and remember them now.
There as we lay in the cave
And saw, as an eye of the dark,
The camp-fire's slumbering spark,
And heard the cataract rave,
Your soul and my soul were as one;
Our life in one channel has run
There as we lay in the cave.
Forth to the task of a man!
Youth and the valour of youth,
Force and the ardour of truth
Give you a place in the van,
Love keeping step at your side
Chanting aloud as you stride
Forth to the task of a man.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 1111011 010010011 0101001 11001001 1101111 1101011 111111111 101111001 01111001 11001011 01001001 101101101 111111111 11111011 111011001 0111011 101011011 001111001 01100101 11111011 1001011 1001001 0110101 1101011 1111101 11011 1001011 1111011 0111011 1101001 1101011 1111011 111111 1111011 10111 1001101 1111011 1011111 1011001 1001111 10111 1001011 1111001 10111111 0101001 0111001 01111 1001011 1111001 01111101 01101001 0101001 11011011 101011011 1111001 1101101 100111 100111 1101001 1101111 1001111 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,905 |
Words | 386 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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