Analysis of Microcosmos
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I am that fantasy which race has wrought
Of mundane chance-material. I am time
Paeaned by the senses five like bells that chime.
I am that cramped and crumbling house of clay
Where mansoul weaves the secret webs of thought.
Venturer--automaton--I cannot tell
What powers and instincts animate and betray
And do their dreamwork in me. Seed and star,
Sown by the wind, in spirit I am far
From self, the dull control with whom I dwell.
Also I am ancestral. Aeons ahead
And ages back, both son and sire I live
Mote-like between the unquickened and the dead--
From whom I take, and unto whom I give.
Scheme | ABB CADCEED FXFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 10110100111 1101011111 11110100111 111010111 10101101 110010100001 011101101 1101010111 1101011111 1011010101 01011101011 110101001 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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