Analysis of Wonderment
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Then a wind blew;
And he who had forgot he moved
Lonely amid the green and silver morning weather,
Suddenly grew
Aware of clouds and trees
Gleaming and white and shafted, shaken together
And blown to music by the ruffling breeze.
Like flush of wings
The moment passed: he stood
Dazzled with blossom in the swaying wood;
Then he remembered how, through all swift things,
This mortal scene stands built of memories,—
Shaped by the wise
Who gazed in breathing wonderment,
And left us their brave eyes
To light the ways they went.
Scheme | AXBACBC DEEDCFXFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 01110111 1001010101010 1001 011101 100101010010 01110101001 1111 010111 1011000101 1101011111 1101111100 1101 11010100 011111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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