Analysis of An Anthem for the Australasian League
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
SHALL we sing of Loyalty
To the far South’s fiery youth?
Yea—but let the pæan be
Of loyalty to God and Truth:
To Man, to progress, and to all
The free things, nobly free,
Of which their loved Australia shall
The golden cradle be.
Hark! her star-eyed Destinies
Pour their voices o’er the seas—
Hither, to the Land of Gold,
All who would be free!
Here a diadem behold
For immortal Liberty!
Not for Old World queens and kings,
Villain Slavery’s outworn things!
Shall we sing of Loyalty
In this new and genial Land?
Yea—but let the pæan be
Of loyalty to Love’s command,
To Thought, to Beauty, and to all
The glorious Arts that yet
In golden Australasia shall
Like chrysolites be set.
Scheme | AbAbcada eefafagg AhAhcidi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 10111001 1110111 11001101 1111011 011101 11110101 010101 1011100 1110101 1010111 11111 101001 1010100 1111101 10111 1111100 0110101 1110111 11001101 11110011 0100111 0100101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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