Analysis of Said Grenfell to my Spirit

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You’ve been writing very free
Of the charms of other places, and you don’t remember me.
You have claimed another native place and think it’s Nature’s law,
Since you never paid a visit to a town you never saw:
So you sing of Mudgee Mountains, willowed stream and grassy flat:
But I put a charm upon you and you won’t get over that."
O said Grenfell to my spirit, " Though you write of breezy peaks,
Golden Gullies, wattle sidings, and the pools in she-oak creeks,
Of the place your kin were born in and the childhood that you knew,
And your father’s distant Norway (though it has some claim on you),
Though you sing of dear old Mudgee and the home on Pipeclay Flat,
You were born on Grenfell goldfield – and you can’t get over that ."


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011101110101 101110100110101 111010101011101 111010101011101 1111110110101 111010110111101 111011101111101 10101010010111 10111010001111 01101011111111 1111111001111 10111010111101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 786
Words 147
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 587
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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