Analysis of From the Somme
Leslie Coulson 1889 – 1916
In other days I sang of simple things,
Of summer dawn, and summer noon and night,
The dewy grass, the dew wet fairy rings,
The larks long golden flight.
Deep in the forest I made melody
While squirrels cracked their hazel nuts on high,
Or I would cross the wet sand to the sea
And sing to sea and sky.
When came the silvered silence of the night
I stole to casements over scented lawns,
And softly sang of love and love’s delight
To mute white marble fauns.
Oft in the tavern parlour I would sing
Of morning sun upon the mountain vine,
And, calling for a chorus, sweep the string
In praise of good red wine.
I played with all the toys the gods provide,
I sang my songs and made glad holiday
Mow I have cast my broken toys aside
And flung my lute away.
A singer once, I now am fain to weep,
Within my soul I feel strange music swell,
Vast chants of tragedy too deep - too deep
For my poor lips to tell.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD BXBA EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101111101 1101010101 0101011101 011101 1001011100 1101110111 1111011101 011101 110110101 111110101 0101110101 111101 1001010111 1101010101 0101010101 011111 1111010101 111101110 1111110101 011101 0101111111 0111111101 1111001111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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