Analysis of Futility
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
1 Move him into the sun--
2 Gently its touch awoke him once,
3 At home, whispering of fields unsown.
4 Always it awoke him, even in France,
5 Until this morning and this snow.
6 If anything might rouse him now
7 The kind old sun will know.
8 Think how it wakes the seeds--
9 Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
10 Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
11 Full-nerved,--still warm,--too hard to stir?
12 Was it for this the clay grew tall?
13 --O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
14 To break earth's sleep at all?
Scheme | AXAXBXB XXXXCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 10110111 11100111 110111001 01110011 1101111 011111 111101 11011011 11110111 11111111 11110111 11110011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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