Analysis of Bombardment
Richard Aldington 1892 (Portsmouth) – 1962
Four days the earth was rent and torn
By bursting steel,
The houses fell about us;
Three nights we dared not sleep,
Sweating, and listening for the imminent crash
Which meant our death.
The fourth night every man,
Nerve-tortured, racked to exhaustion,
Slept, muttering and twitching,
While the shells crashed overhead.
The fifth day there came a hush;
We left our holes
And looked above the wreckage of the earth
To where the white clouds moved in silent lines
Across the untroubled blue.
Scheme | XXXXXX XXXX XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 1101 0101011 111111 100100101001 11101 0111001 11011010 1100010 1011101 0111101 11101 0101010101 1101110101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 483 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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