Analysis of The Plains
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow
Or the plains are blackened and burnt and bare, where the false mirages go
Like shifting symbols of hope deferred - land where you never know.
Land of the plenty or land of want, where the grey Companions dance,
Feast or famine, or hope or fear, and in all things land of chance,
Where Nature pampers or Nature slays, in her ruthless, red, romance.
And we catch a sound of a fairy's song, as the wind goes whipping by,
Or a scent like incense drifts along from the herbage ripe and dry
- Or the dust storms dance on their ballroom floor, where the bones of the cattle lie.
Scheme | AAA BBB CCC |
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Poetic Form | Triplet |
Metre | 0111101111010101 10111001011010101 110101101111101 1101011111010101 111011110011111 1101011010010101 0110110111011101 101101101101101 10111111110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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