Analysis of The Welcome,
Nettie Palmer 1885 (Bendigo) – 1964 (Hawthorn)
DID you know, little child,
Ere you left the outer wild,
There were strong hands steady,
There were old songs ready,
There was love prepared to keep you with the hard earth reconciled?
Did you learn beyond the moon
All the happy sounds of noon?
A creek’s voice will greet you,
A wattle bend to meet you,
There are visions, there are voices: you will know them soon and soon.
Yes, for you will surely go
Where the deepest gullies grow,
They will feel you and take you,
With birds to lure and wake you,
They will set your spirit dancing, they will tell you all they know.
There beneath the radiant dome
Unafraid your feet will roam,
With the soft creek lapping,
And the loose bark flapping,
While the waving tree-ferns whisper, ‘Little girl, you’ve wandered home.’
Scheme | AABBA CCDDC EEDDE FFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1110101 101110 101110 11101111101110 1110101 1010111 011111 0101111 111011101111101 1111101 1010101 1111011 1111011 111110101111111 10101001 011111 101110 001110 101011101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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