Analysis of The Broken Sanctuary
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
I 'ad been bushed in city streets,
Where the bricks and mortar grow.
I 'ad worked me way through the northern towns
'Oo's landmarks I don't know.
There was faces, faces, driftin' past,
But never a one I knoo.
An' I never 'ad felt the need so great
For a reel good mate an' true.
A lonely man in the Outback lands
Is a lonely man, all right.
Yet 'e 'as the sky an' the birds by day
An' 'e 'as the stars by night.
But a lonely man in a crowd o' men
Is the loneliest of all,
An' that's 'ow come I 'ad a few;
An' that's 'ow come my fall.
Fer I sez to meself, 'I'm a stranger 'ere,
An' there ain't a soul I know.'
Then I thinks of a Mate I alwiz 'ad
Where the stunted mulgas grow
The Man 'oo ever 'as been my friend
Through many a black bush night;
An' I thinks, 'If I find His house round 'ere,
He'll give me a doss, all right.'
An' I come to His house as I stumbled on,
An' I found the door ajar;
As it alwiz stands in the Christian lands
Fer blokes that wander far;
So up I crep' to the altar step,
An' I sez . . . 'I'm 'ere again.'
I knew He'd spare what nap was there,
So I lodged with the Mate of Men.
Yes: I found His house, an' I lay me down,
An' I dreamed of a kindly God;
When a big policeman came along
An' banged me into quod.
An' the cell was cold, an' the bed was 'ard;
But I thinks, 'It's all right, Bill.'
So I lay me down an' dreamed again . .
An' my Mate was with me still.
Scheme | XAXABCXD EFXFCGDG HAXAXFHF CIEIXCHC CXXBXJCJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11110101 1010101 1111110101 11111 11101011 1100111 1110110111 1011111 01010011 1010111 1110110111 1110111 1010100111 10111 11111101 111111 1111110101 1110111 111101111 101011 011101111 1100111 1111111111 1110111 11111111101 1110101 111100101 111101 111110101 1111101 11111111 11110111 1111111111 11110101 101010101 111011 1011110111 1111111 111111101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,356 |
Words | 299 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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