Analysis of From My Diary, July 1914
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
Leaves
Murmuring by miriads in the shimmering trees.
Lives
Wakening with wonder in the Pyrenees.
Birds
Cheerily chirping in the early day.
Bards
Singing of summer, scything thro' the hay.
Bees
Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond.
Boys
Bursting the surface of the ebony pond.
Flashes
Of swimmers carving thro' the sparkling cold.
Fleshes
Gleaming with wetness to the morning gold.
A mead
Bordered about with warbling water brooks.
A maid
Laughing the love-laugh with me; proud of looks.
The heat
Throbbing between the upland and the peak.
Her heart
Quivering with passion to my pressed cheek.
Braiding
Of floating flames across the mountain brow.
Brooding
Of stillness; and a sighing of the bough.
Stirs
Of leaflets in the gloom; soft petal-showers;
Stars
Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers.
Scheme | ABCBDEAEBFGFHIAIJKLKMNONPQPQRRSR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10011001001 1 111000100 1 11000101 1 101101101 1 1001011101 1 10010101001 10 1101010101 1 1011010101 01 10011100101 01 1001111111 01 1001010001 01 1001101111 10 1101010101 10 1100010101 1 11000111010 1 01010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 653 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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