Analysis of Storm

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



His face was charged with beauty as a cloud
With glimmering lightning. When it shadowed me
I shook, and was uneasy as a tree
That draws the brilliant danger, tremulous, bowed.

So must I tempt that face to loose its lightning.
Great gods, whose beauty is death, will laugh above,
Who made his beauty lovelier than love.
I shall be bright with their unearthly brightening.

And happier were it if my sap consume;
Glorious will shine the opening of my heart;
The land shall freshen that was under gloom;
What matter if all men cry aloud and start,
And women hide bleak faces in their shawl,
At those hilarious thunders of my fall?


Scheme ABBA CDDC EFEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 11001011101 1101010101 11010101001 11111111110 11110111101 11110111 111111010100 01000111101 100110100111 0111011101 11011110101 0101110011 11010010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 621
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 166
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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