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?
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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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