Analysis of Goblin Revel
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin,
I watch them come; by two, by three, by four,
Advancing slow, with loutings they begin
Their woven measure, widening from the door;
While music-men behind are straddling in
With flutes to brisk their feet across the floor,—
And jangled dulcimers, and fiddles thin
That taunt the twirling antic through once more.
They pause, and hushed to whispers, steal away.
With cunning glances; silent go their shoon
On creakless stairs; but far away the dogs
Bark at some lonely farm: and haply they
Have clambered back into the dusky moon
That sinks beyond the marshes loud with frogs.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111111 1111111111 010111101 11010100101 1101011100 1111110101 01010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010111 111110101 111101011 110101011 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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