Analysis of Ex-Service
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Derision from the dead
Mocks armamental madness.
Redeem (each Ruler said)
Mankind. Men died to do it.
And some with glorying gladness
Bore arms for earth and bled:
But most went glumly through it
Dumbly doomed to rue it.
The darkness of their dying
Grows one with War recorded;
Whose swindled ghosts are crying
From shell-holes in the past,
Our deeds with lies were lauded,
Our bones with wrongs rewarded.
Dream voices these—denying
Dud laurels to the last.
| Scheme | ABACBACC DXDEFFDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 1110 011101 1111111 01111 111101 1111011 11111 0101110 1111010 1101110 111001 10111010 10111010 1101010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 452 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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