Analysis of Next Door
Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)
Whenever I’m moving my furniture in
Or shifting my furniture out—
Which is nearly as often and risky as Sin
In these days of shifting about—
There isn’t a stretcher, there isn’t a stick,
Nor a mat that belongs to the floor;
There isn’t a pot (Oh, my heart groweth sick!)
That escapes from the glare of Next Door!
The Basilisk Glare of Next Door.
Be it morn, noon or night—be it early or late;
Be it summer or winter or spring,
I cannot sneak down just to list at the gate
For the song that the bottle-ohs sing;
With some bottles to sell that shall bring me a beer,
And lead up to one or two more;
But I feel in my backbone the serpentine sneer,
And the Basilisk Glare of Next Door.
The political woman Next Door.
I really can’t say, being no one of note,
Why she glares at my odds and my ends,
Excepting, maybe, I’m a frivolous Pote,
With one or two frivolous friends,
Who help me to shift and to warm up the house
For three or four glad hours or more,
In a suburb that hasn’t the soul of a louse;
And they’ve got no respect for Next Door!
They don’t give a damn for Next Door
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011011000 11011001 111011001011 01111001 110101101 101101101 110111111 101101111 011111 111111111011 111011011 11011111101 101101011 111011111101 01111111 1110110101 0011111 001001011 11011101111 111111011 1010101001 11111001 11111011101 111111011 00101101101 011101111 11101111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,085 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 274 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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