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 |
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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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