Analysis of But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
Bugles sang, saddening the evening air,
And bugles answered, sorrowful to hear.
Voices of boys were by the river-side.
Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.
The shadow of the morrow weighed on men.
Voices of old despondency resigned,
Bowed by the shadow of the morrow, slept.
( ) dying tone
Of receding voices that will not return.
The wailing of the high far-travelling shells
And the deep cursing of the provoking ( )
The monstrous anger of our taciturn guns.
The majesty of the insults of their mouths.
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Metre | 1011000101 0101010011 1011010101 11101011 011010111 1011010001 110110101 101 10101011101 01010111001 0011010010 01010110101 01001001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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