Analysis of An Old French Poet
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
When in your sober mood my body have ye laid
In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream,
And the green turf has hidden the poor bones ye deem
No more a close companion with those rhymes we made;
Then, if some bird should pipe, or breezes stir the glade,
Thinking them for the while my voice, so let them seem
A fading message from the misty shores of dream,
Or wheresoever, following Death, my feet have strayed.
| Scheme | ABBA ABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101101110111 01011101101 001111001111 110101011111 111111110101 101101111111 010101010111 1110011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 434 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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