Analysis of To His Dead Body
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried,
Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died,
Like racing smoke, swift from your lolling head
phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.
Yet, though my dreams that throng the darkened stair
Can bring me no report of how you fare,
Safe quit of wars, I speed you on your way
Up lonely, glimmering fields to find new day,
Slow-rising, saintless, confident and kind—
Dear, red-faced father God who lit your mind.
| Scheme | AABB CCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1101110011 1011010101 1101111101 10110100101 1111110101 1111011111 1111111111 11010011111 110110001 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 477 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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