Analysis of I Know The Music

Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)



All sounds have been as music to my listening:
Pacific lamentations of slow bells,
The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening,
Shuffle of autumn leaves; and all farewells:

Bugles that sadden all the evening air,
And country bells clamouring their last appeals
Before [the] music of the evening prayer;
Bridges, sonorous under carriage wheels.

Gurgle of sluicing surge through hollow rocks,
The gluttonous lapping of the waves on weeds,
Whisper of grass; the myriad-tinkling flocks,
The warbling drawl of flutes and shepherds' reeds.

The orchestral noises of October nights
Blowing ( ) symphonetic storms
Of startled clarions ( )
Drums, rumbling and rolling thunderous and ( ).

Thrilling of throstles in the keen blue dawn,
Bees fumbling and fuming over sainfoin-fields.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF XXBX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 111111011100 0101111 011111110100 101101011 1011010101 010111101 0111010101 1010010101 1011011101 01001010111 101101001001 01001110101 00101010101 1011 1101 11000101000 101100111 11000101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 766
Words 124
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. more…

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