Analysis of The Dug-out
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen, cold,
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold;
And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder;
Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head...
You are too young to fall asleep for ever;
And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101010 0111011101 01011111111 1101011001 011011111010 10110010111 11111101110 01111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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