Analysis of Music
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
I have been urged by earnest violins
And drunk their mellow sorrows to the slake
Of all my sorrows and my thirsting sins.
My heart has beaten for a brave drum's sake.
Huge chords have wrought me mighty: I have hurled
Thuds of gods' thunder. And with old winds pondered
Over the curse of this chaotic world,-
With low lost winds that maundered as they wandered.
I have been gay with trivial fifes that laugh;
And songs more sweet than possible things are sweet;
And gongs, and oboes. Yet I guessed not half
Life's symphony till I had made hearts beat,
And touched Love's body into trembling cries,
And blown my love's lips into laughs and sighs.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1111110001 0111010101 111100111 1111010111 1111110111 11110011110 1001110101 1111111110 11111100111 01111100111 010111111 1100111111 01110011001 0111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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