Analysis of Killed In Action
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
Your ' Youth ' has fallen from its shelf,
And you have fallen, you yourself.
They knocked a soldier on the head,
I mourn the poet who fell dead.
And yet I think it was by chance,
By oversight you died in France.
You were so poor an outward man,
So small against your spirit's span,
That Nature, being tired awhile,
Saw but your outward human pile;
And Nature, who would never let
A sun with light still in it set,
Before you even reached your sky,
In inadvertence let you die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01110101 11010101 11010111 01111111 1101101 10111101 11011101 110101001 11110101 01011101 01111011 01110111 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 366 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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