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.
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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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