Analysis of A Private
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors
Many a frozen night, and merrily
Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores:
"At Mrs Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he,
"I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town,
Beyond `The Drover', a hundred spot the down
In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps
More sound in France -that, too, he secret keeps.
| Scheme | ABABCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101111 1001010100 1011011011 11011111 1111110101 01110010101 010111111 1101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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