Analysis of At Euroma
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
They built his mound of the rough, red ground,
By the dip of a desert dell,
Where all things sweet are killed by the heat,
And scattered o'er flat and fell;
In a burning zone they left him alone,
Past the uttermost western plain,
And the nightfall dim heard his funeral hymn
In the voices of wind and rain.
The songs austere of the forests drear,
And the echoes of clift and cave,
When the dark is keen where the storm hath been,
Fleet over the far-away grave.
And through the days when the torrid rays
Strike down on a coppery gloom,
Some spirit grieves in the perished leaves,
Whose theme is that desolate tomb.
No human foot or paw of brute
Halts now where the stranger sleeps;
But cloud and star his fellows are,
And the rain that sobs and weeps.
The dingo yells by the far iron fells,
The plover is loud in the range,
But they never come near to the slumberer here,
Whose rest is a rest without change.
Ah! in his life, had he mother or wife,
To wait for his step on the floor?
Did beauty wax dim while watching for him
Who passed through the threshold no more?
Doth it trouble his head? He is one with the dead;
He lies by the alien streams;
And sweeter than sleep is death that is deep
And unvexed by the lordship of dreams.
Scheme | XAXAXBCB DEXEXFXF XGDGXHDH XDCDXIXI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 10110101 111111101 01010101 0010111101 101101 0011111001 00101101 010110101 00101101 1011110111 11001011 010110101 11101001 110100101 11111001 11011111 1110101 11011101 0011101 0101101101 01011001 1110111011 11101011 1011111011 11111101 1101111011 1110111 111011111101 11101001 0101111111 0110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,208 |
Words | 240 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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