Analysis of Survivors
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again,’—
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.
They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,—
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter’d all their pride...
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
Craiglockart. October, 1917.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 11110101 1111011101 11111101011 1101110111 11011111 11111100111 1100111111 1111110101 10111111001 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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