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 |
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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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