Analysis of In Barracks
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
The barrack-square, washed clean with rain,
Shines wet and wintry-grey and cold.
Young Fusiliers, strong-legged and bold,
March and wheel and march again.
The sun looks over the barrack gate,
Warm and white with glaring shine,
To watch the soldiers of the Line
That life has hired to fight with fate.
Fall out: the long parades are done.
Up comes the dark; down goes the sun.
The square is walled with windowed light.
Sleep well, you lusty Fusiliers;
Shut your brave eyes on sense and sight,
And banish from your dreamless ears
The bugle’s dying notes that say,
‘Another night; another day.’
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 11010101 1111001 1010101 011100101 1011101 11010101 111101111 11010111 11011101 01111101 111101 11111101 0101111 01010111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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