Analysis of Blind
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
His headstrong thoughts that once in eager strife
Leapt sure from eye to brain and back to eye,
Weaving unconscious tapestries of life,
Are now thrust inward, dungeoned from the sky.
And he who has watched his world and loved it all,
Starless and old and blind, a sight for pity,
With feeble steps and fingers on the wall,
Gropes with his staff along the rumbling city.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 111110101 1111110111 101010011 111101101 01111110111 1010101110 1101010101 111101010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 376 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 294 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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