Analysis of Banishment
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I am banished from the patient men who fight
They smote my heart to pity, built my pride.
Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by side,
They trudged away from life’s broad wealds of light.
Their wrongs were mine; and ever in my sight
They went arrayed in honour. But they died,—
Not one by one: and mutinous I cried
To those who sent them out into the night.
The darkness tells how vainly I have striven
To free them from the pit where they must dwell
In outcast gloom convulsed and jagged and riven
By grappling guns. Love drove me to rebel.
Love drives me back to grope with them through hell;
And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010111 1111110111 1011010111 1101111111 1101010011 110101111 1111010011 1111110101 01011101110 1111011111 011101010 1101111110 1111111111 00110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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