Analysis of Song of the Cattle Hunters
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams,
And the water-pools flash in its glow,
Down the ridges we fly, with a loud ringing cry --
Down the ridges and gullies we go!
And the cattle we hunt -- they are racing in front,
With a roar like the thunder of waves,
As the beat and the beat of our swift horses' feet
Start the echoes away from their caves!
As the beat and the beat
Of our swift horses' feet
Start the echoes away from their caves!
Like a wintry shore that the waters ride o'er,
All the lowlands are filling with sound;
For swiftly we gain where the herds on the plain,
Like a tempest, are tearing the ground!
And we'll follow them hard to the rails of the yard,
O'er the gulches and mountain-tops grey,
Where the beat and the beat of our swift horses' feet
Will die with the echoes away!
Where the beat and the beat
Of our swift horses' feet
Will die with the echoes away!
Scheme | xaxaxbcBcCB xdxdxecEcCE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110111 001011011 101011101101 101001011 001011111001 101101011 1010011101101 101001111 101001 1101101 101001111 101011010110 10111011 11011101101 101011001 011011101101 100101011 1010011101101 11101001 101001 1101101 11101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 905 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 347 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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