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
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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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. more…

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