Analysis of Joy-Bells
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells
To the green-vista’d gladness of the past
That changed us into soldiers; swing your bells
To a joyful chime; but let it be the last.
What means this metal in windy belfries hung
When guns are all our need? Dissolve these bells
Whose tones are tuned for peace: with martial tongue
Let them cry doom and storm the sun with shells.
Bells are like fierce-browed prelates who proclaim
That ‘if our Lord returned He’d fight for us.’
So let our bells and bishops do the same,
Shoulder to shoulder with the motor-bus.
Scheme | ABAB CACA DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111111 10111101 1110110111 10101111101 1111001011 11111010111 1111111101 1111010111 1111110101 11101011111 11101010101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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