Analysis of Morning-Glory

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)



In this meadow starred with spring
Shepherds kneel before their king.
Mary throned, with dreaming eyes,
Gowned in blue like rain-washed skies,
Lifts her tiny son that he
May behold their courtesy.
And green-smocked children, awed and good,
Bring him blossoms from the wood.

Clear the sunlit steeples chime
Mary’s coronation-time.
Loud the happy children quire
To the golden-windowed morn;
While the lord of their desire
Sleeps below the crimson thorn.


Scheme AABBCCDD EEXFXF
Poetic Form
Metre 011111 1010111 1011101 1011111 1010111 1011100 01110101 1110101 101101 10101 1010101 1010101 10111010 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 459
Words 73
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 04, 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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