Analysis of Death in Battle
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
Open the gates for me,
Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West,
In the sweet dim Isle of Apples over the wide sea’s breast,
Open the gates for me!
Sorely pressed have I been
And driven and hurt beyond bearing this summer day,
But the heat and the pain together suddenly fall away,
All’s cool and green.
But a moment agone,
Among men cursing in fight and toiling, blinded I fought,
But the labour passed on a sudden even as a passing thought,
Ah, to be ever alone,
In flowery valleys among the mountains and silent wastes untrod,
In the dewy upland places, in the garden of God,
This would atone!
I shall not see
The brutal, crowded faces around me, that in their toil have grown
Into the faces of devils—yea, even as my own—
When I find thee,
O Country of Dreams!
Beyond the tide of the ocean, hidden and sunk away,
Out of the sound of battles, near to the end of day,
Full of dim woods and streams.
Scheme | Abb A cddx cee fbxf affa gddg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 100110101010001 00111110100111 100111 101111 0100101101101 101001010100101 1101 10101 01110010101011 101110101010101 1111001 0100100101001011 00101010001011 1101 1111 0101010011101111 01010110110111 1111 11011 01011010100101 1101110110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 925 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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