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.


Scheme ABABCC DED EXX
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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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an eminent English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy". more…

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