Analysis of Golgotha
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares
That flood the field with shallow, blanching light.
The huddled sentry stares
On gloom at war with white,
And white receding slow, submerged in gloom.
Guns into mimic thunder burst and boom,
And mirthless laughter rakes the whistling night.
The sentry keeps his watch where no one stirs
But the brown rats, the nimble scavengers.
| Scheme | ABABCCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1101011101 110111011 010101 111111 0101010101 1011010101 011010101 0101111111 1011010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 386 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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