Analysis of 1915
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
I’ve watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you’ve been everything.
Dear, you’ve been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches—pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that’s good.
Scheme | ABCBAAC DEFEDDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 00101111001 100011111 110111 100100101 1101110111 01110 111101111 01110010101 1001011101 10011 0101101 011110101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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