Analysis of Two Fusiliers
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
And have we done with War at last?
Well, we’ve been lucky devils both,
And there’s no need of pledge or oath
To bind our lovely friendship fast,
By firmer stuff
Close bound enough.
By wire and wood and stake we’re bound,
By Fricourt and by Festubert,
By whipping rain, by the sun’s glare,
By all the misery and loud sound,
By a Spring day,
By Picard clay.
Show me the two so closely bound
As we, by the red bond of blood,
By friendship, blossoming from mud,
By Death: we faced him, and we found
Beauty in Death,
In dead men breath.
Scheme | ABBACC DAXDEE DFFDGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 11110101 01111111 111010101 1101 1101 110010101 11011 11011011 110100011 1011 1011 11011101 11101111 11010011 11111011 1001 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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