Analysis of Autumn
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
In whose lament I hear a voice that grieves
For battle’s fruitless harvest, and the feud
Of outraged men. Their lives are like the leaves
Scattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blown
Along the westering furnace flaring red.
O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,
The burden of your wrongs is on my head.
| Scheme | ABACADEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010010101 0101010101 0101110111 1101010001 111111101 1001110101 010110101 11010101 0101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 404 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 321 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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