Analysis of An Imperial Elegy
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
Not one corner of a foreign field
But a span as wide as Europe;
An appearance of a titan's grave,
And the length thereof a thousand miles,
It crossed all Europe like a mystic road,
Or as the Spirits' Pathway lieth on the night.
And I heard a voice crying
This is the Path of Glory.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010101 10111110 10101011 00110101 1111010101 1101011101 0110110 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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