Analysis of Lamentations
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I found him in the guard-room at the Base.
From the blind darkness I had heard his crying
And blundered in. With puzzled, patient face
A sergeant watched him; it was no good trying
To stop it; for he howled and beat his chest.
And, all because his brother had gone west,
Raved at the bleeding war; his rampant grief
Moaned, shouted, sobbed, and choked, while he was kneeling
Half-naked on the floor. In my belief
Such men have lost all patriotic feeling.
| Scheme | ABABCCDBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1110011101 10110111110 0100110101 01011111110 1111110111 0101110111 1101011101 11010111110 1101010101 1111101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 355 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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