Analysis of Fight to a Finish
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
The boys came back. Bands played and flags were flying,
And Yellow-Pressmen thronged the sunlit street
To cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying,
And hear the music of returning feet.
‘Of all the thrills and ardours War has brought,
This moment is the finest.’ (So they thought.)
Snapping their bayonets on to charge the mob,
Grim Fusiliers broke ranks with glint of steel,
At last the boys had found a cushy job.
. . . .
I heard the Yellow-Pressmen grunt and squeal;
And with my trusty bombers turned and went
To clear those Junkers out of Parliament.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101010 01011011 11010101110 0101010101 110101111 1101010111 1011011101 11111111 1101110101 1 110101101 0111010101 111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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