Analysis of The Road To Ruin
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
My hopes, my messengers I sent
Across the ten years continent
Of Time. In dream I saw them go--
And thought, 'When they come back I'll show
To what far place I lead my friends
Where this disastrous decade ends.'
Like one in purgatory, I learned
The loss of hope. For none returned,
And long in darkening dream I lay.
Then came a ghost whose warning breath
Gasped from an agony of death,
'No, not that way; no, not that way.'
| Scheme | XXA ABB CCDEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110011 01011100 11011111 01111111 11111111 11010011 11010011 01111101 010100111 11011101 11110011 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 421 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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