Analysis of Stand-To: Good Friday Morning
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I’d been on duty from two till four.
I went and stared at the dug-out door.
Down in the frowst I heard them snore.
‘Stand to!’ Somebody grunted and swore.
Dawn was misty; the skies were still;
Larks were singing, discordant, shrill;
They seemed happy; but I felt ill.
Deep in water I splashed my way
Up the trench to our bogged front line.
Rain had fallen the whole damned night.
O Jesus, send me a wound to-day,
And I’ll believe in Your bread and wine,
And get my bloody old sins washed white!
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Metre | 111101111 110110111 10011111 11101001 11100101 10100101 11101111 10101111 101110111 11100111 110110111 010101101 011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 377 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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