Analysis of Two Hundred Years After
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night,
(Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight)
Along the pallid edge of the quiet sky
He watched a nosing lorry grinding on,
And straggling files of men; when these were gone,
A double limber and six mules went by,
Hauling the rations up through ruts and mud
To trench-lines digged two hundred years ago.
Then darkness hid them with a rainy scud,
And soon he saw the village lights below.
But when he'd told his tale, an old man said
That he'd seen soldiers pass along that hill;
'Poor silent things, they were the English dead
Who came to fight in France and got their fill.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111101 0111100111 01010110101 1101010101 011111101 0101001111 1001011101 1111110101 1101110101 0111010101 1111111111 1111010111 1101100101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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