Analysis of Because We Are Going
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Because we are going from our wonted places
To be task-ridden by one shattering Aim,
And terror hides in all our laughing faces
That had no will to die, no thirst for fame,
Hear our last word. In Hell we seek for Heaven;
The agony of wounds shall make us clean;
And the failures of our sloth shall be forgiven
When Silence holds the songs that might have been,
And what we served remains, superb, unshaken,
England, our June of blossom that shines above
Disastrous War; for whom we have forsaken
Ways that were rich and gleeful and filled with love.
Thus are we heroes; since we might not choose
To live where Honour gave us life to lose.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110110110 11110111001 010101101010 1111111111 110110111110 0100111111 0010110111010 1101011111 01110101010 101011101101 01011111010 11010100111 1111011111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 504 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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