Analysis of France
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
She triumphs, in the vivid green
Where sun and quivering foliage meet;
And in each soldier’s heart serene;
When death stood near them they have seen
The radiant forests where her feet
Move on a breeze of silver sheen.
And they are fortunate, who fight
For gleaming landscapes swept and shafted
And crowned by cloud pavilions white;
Hearing such harmonies as might
Only from Heaven be downward wafted—
Voices of victory and delight.
| Scheme | ABAABA CDCCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11000101 110100101 00110101 11111111 010010101 11011101 01110011 11011010 01110101 10110011 1011011010 101100001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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