Analysis of Grandeur Of Ghosts
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
When I have heard small talk about great men
I climb to bed; light my two candles; then
Consider what was said; and put aside
What Such-a-one remarked and Someone-else replied.
They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends,
(Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,)
Quoting, for shallow conversational ends,
What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered ....
How can they use such names and be not humble?
I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered.
The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said
What these can only memorize and mumble.
Scheme | AABB CDCE DEXD |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1111110111 1111111101 0101110101 11010101101 1110101111 11111101110 1011001001 11011111010 11111101110 111101011110 0101110111 1111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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