Analysis of The Silent Battle
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
(In Memory of J. W. T. Jr.)
He was a soldier in that fight
Where there is neither flag nor drum,
And without sound of musketry
The stealthy foemen come.
Year in, year out, by day and night
They forced him to a slow retreat,
And for his gallant fight alone
No fife was blown, and no drum beat.
In winter fog, in gathering mist
The gray grim battle had its end --
And at the very last we knew
His enemy had turned his friend.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001110011 11010011 11110111 001111 01011 10111101 11110101 01110101 11110111 010101001 01110111 01010111 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 419 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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