Analysis of Twelve Months After
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Hullo! here’s my platoon, the lot I had last year.
‘The war’ll be over soon.’
‘What ’opes?’
‘No bloody fear!’
Then, ‘Number Seven, ’shun! All present and correct.’
They’re standing in the sun, impassive and erect.
Young Gibson with his grin; and Morgan, tired and white;
Jordan, who’s out to win a D.C.M. some night;
And Hughes that’s keen on wiring; and Davies (’79),
Who always must be firing at the Boche front line.
. . . .
‘Old soldiers never die; they simply fide a-why!’
That’s what they used to sing along the roads last spring;
That’s what they used to say before the push began;
That’s where they are to-day, knocked over to a man.
Scheme | AXBACCDDBX XXEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 11101011111 011101 11 1101 110101110001 110001010001 1101110101001 1011110111 0111110010 11111010111 1 110101110101 111111010111 111111010101 111111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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