Analysis of Miracles
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming
Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after;
The solemn world was sucked along with it—a streaming
Land-slide of loveliness. O, but I rocked with laughter,
Staring, and clinging to my tree-top. For a lake
Of gleaming peace swept on behind. (I mustn’t wake.)
And then great clouds gathered and burst in spumes of green
That plunged into the water; and the sun came out
On glittering islands thronged with orchards scarlet-bloomed;
And rosy-plumed flamingoes flashed across the scene...
O, but the beauty of their freedom made me shout...
And when I woke I wondered where on earth I’d been.
Scheme | ABABCC DEXDEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101010 100111010110 0101110111010 11111111110 100101111101 11011101111 011110010111 110101000111 1100101110101 0101110101 110101110111 011111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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