Analysis of At The Sound Of The Drum
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
ARE you going for a soldier with your curly yellow hair,
And a scarlet coat instead of the smock you used to wear?
Are you going to drive the foe as you used to drive the plough?
Are you going for a soldier now?
I am going for a soldier, and my tunic is of red
And I'm tired of woman's chatter, and I'll hear the drum instead;
I will break the fighting line as you broke your plighted vow,
For I'm going for a soldier now.
For a soldier, for a soldier are you sure that you will go,
To hear the drums a-beating and to hear the bugles blow?
I'll make you sweeter music, for I'll swear another vow--
Are you going for a soldier now?
I am going for a soldier if you'd twenty vows to make;
You must get another sweetheart, with another heart to break,
For I'm sick of lies and women and the harrow and the plough,
And I'm going for a soldier now!
Scheme | aabB ccbb ddbB eebb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010101110101 00101011011111 111011011111101 111010101 111010100110111 0110110100110101 1110101111111 111010101 101010101111111 11010100110101 11110101110101 111010101 111010101110111 11101011010111 111110100010001 011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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