Analysis of The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and strops,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
Scheme | XXAAXXBXCCXXBX CC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 0101011001 0111111010 10011101110 01001010010 1101111100 1011011101 0110101 011011111 11110111110 1011110101 101101101 0110010111 1001110111 10111111111 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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