Analysis of The Dragon and the Undying
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
All night the flares go up; the Dragon sings
And beats upon the dark with furious wings;
And, stung to rage by his own darting fires,
Reaches with grappling coils from town to town;
He lusts to break the loveliness of spires,
And hurls their martyred music toppling down.
Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,
Vocal are they, like storm-bewilder'd seas.
Their faces are the fair, unshrouded night,
And planets are their eyes, their ageless dreams.
Tenderly stooping earthward from their height,
They wander in the dusk with chanting streams,
And they are dawn-lit trees, with arms up-flung,
To hail the burning heavens they left unsung.
Scheme | AAXBXBC CDEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 01010111001 01111111010 1011011111 11110111 01110101001 1101110101 1011110101 11010111 0101111101 100101111 1100011101 0111111111 11010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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