Analysis of Fancy Dress

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)



Some Brave, awake in you to-night,
Knocked at your heart: an eagle’s flight
Stirred in the feather on your head.
Your wide-set Indian eyes, alight
Above high cheek-bones smeared with red,
Unveiled cragg’d centuries, and led
You, the snared wraith of bygone things—
Wild ancestries of trackless Kings—
Out of the past ... So men have felt
Strange anger move them as they knelt
Praying to gods serenely starred
In heavens where tomahawks are barred.


Scheme AABABBCCDDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11111101 10010111 111100101 01111111 01110001 1011111 11111 11011111 11011111 101101001 01011011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 462
Words 76
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 354
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an eminent English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy". more…

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