Analysis of What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I’ve had a good bump round; my little horse
Refused the brook first time,
Then jumped it prime;
And ran out at the double,
But of course
There’s always trouble at a double:
And then—I don’t know how
It was—he turned it up
At that big, hairy fence before the plough;
And some young silly pup
(I don’t know which),
Near as a toucher knocked me into the ditch;
But we finished full of running, and quite sound:
And anyhow I’ve had a good bump round.
| Scheme | ABBCACDEDEFFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111101 010111 1111 0111010 111 11101010 011111 111111 1111010101 011101 1111 1101110101 11101110011 010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 466 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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