Analysis of To Germany
Charles Hamilton Sorley 1895 (Aberdeen) – 1915 (Hulluch, Lens)
You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
And no man claimed the conquest of your land.
But gropers both through fields of thought confined
We stumble and we do not understand.
You only saw your future bigly planned,
And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,
And in each other's dearest ways we stand,
And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind.
When it is peace, then we may view again
With new-won eyes each other's truer form
And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm
We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain,
When it is peace. But until peace, the storm
The darkness and the thunder and the rain.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111101 0111010111 111111101 110011101 110111011 010100111011 0011010111 0101001101 1111111101 1111110101 0101110101 1111011011 1111101101 0100010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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