Analysis of To My Brother
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Give me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.
Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell’d head
And through your victory I shall win the light.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110111 1011111111 1111111111 1101010111 1111011101 0110011111 100111111 01110011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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