Analysis of Died of Wounds
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
His wet white face and miserable eyes
Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:
But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fell
His troubled voice: he did the business well.
The ward grew dark; but he was still complaining
And calling out for ‘Dickie’. ‘Curse the Wood!
‘It’s time to go. O Christ, and what’s the good?
‘We’ll never take it, and it’s always raining.’
I wondered where he’d been; then heard him shout,
‘They snipe like hell! O Dickie, don’t go out...
I fell asleep ... Next morning he was dead;
And some Slight Wound lay smiling on the bed.
Scheme | AABB CDDC EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010001 1101111101 1101010101 1101110101 01111111010 0101110101 1111110001 1101101110 1101111111 1111110111 1101110111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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