Analysis of The Army Surgeon
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
Over that breathing waste of friends and foes,
The wounded and the dying, hour by hour,-
In will a thousand, yet but one in power,-
He labours thro' the red and groaning day.
The fearful moorland where the myriads lay
Moved as a moving field of mangled worms.
And as a raw brood, orphaned in the storms,
Thrust up their heads if the wind bend a spray
Above them, but when the bare branch performs
No sweet parental office, sink away
With hopeless chirp of woe, so as he goes
Around his feet in clamorous agony
They rise and fall; and all the seething plain
Bubbles a cauldron vast of many-coloured pain.
Scheme | ABBCCDECECAFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011101 010001010110 01010111010 111010101 01011011 1101011101 0101110001 1111101101 0111101101 1101010101 1101111111 011101100 1101010101 100101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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