Analysis of Gone, Gone Again
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
Gone, gone again,
May, June, July,
And August gone,
Again gone by,
Not memorable
Save that I saw them go,
As past the empty quays
The rivers flow.
And now again,
In the harvest rain,
The Blenheim oranges
Fall grubby from the trees
As when I was young
And when the lost one was here
And when the war began
To turn young men to dung.
Look at the old house,
Outmoded, dignified,
Dark and untenanted,
With grass growing instead
Of the footsteps of life,
The friendliness, the strife;
In its beds have lain
Youth. love, age, and pain:
I am something like that;
Only I am not dead,
Still breathing and interested
In the house that is not dark:-
I am something like that:
Not one pane to reflect the sun,
For the schoolboys to throw at -
They have broken every one.
Scheme | abxb xcdc aedd fxxf dggh iiee Jhxx Jkjk |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1101 111 0101 0111 11000 111111 110101 0101 0101 00101 01100 110101 11111 0101111 010101 111111 11011 1010 101 111001 10111 010001 01111 11101 111011 101111 1100100 0011111 111011 11110101 101111 11101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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