Analysis of The Triumph
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
When life was a cobweb of stars for Beauty who came
In the whisper of leaves or a bird's lone cry in the glen,
On dawn-lit hills and horizons girdled with flame
I sought for the triumph that troubles the faces of men.
With death in the terrible flickering gloom of the fight
I was cruel and fierce with despair; I was naked and bound;
was stricken: and Beauty returned through the shambles of night;
In the faces of men she returned; and their triumph I found.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011111011 00101110111001 11110010111 11101011001011 11001001001101 111001101111001 11001001101011 001011101011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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