Analysis of Idyll

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)



In the grey summer garden I shall find you
With day-break and the morning hills behind you.
There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;
And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.
Not from the past you’ll come, but from that deep
Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:
And I shall know the sense of life re-born
From dreams into the mystery of morn
Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there
Till that calm song is done, at last we’ll share
The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are
Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 00110101111 11100101011 1111110111 0101011101 1101111111 1101010101 0111011111 1101010011 1101010101 1111111111 0111010011 1001010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 566
Words 104
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 434
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 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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