Analysis of Base Details
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap,"
I'd say -- "I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1101010111 1111010101 0111010111 11111101001 10001000101 100111111 1111111101 1111000111 0101110111 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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