Analysis of Villon

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)



They threw me from the gates: my matted hair
Was dank with dungeon wetness; my spent frame
O’erlaid with marish agues: everywhere
Tortured by leaping pangs of frost and flame,
So hideous was I that even Lazarus there
In noisome rags arrayed and leprous shame,
Beside me set had seemed full sweet and fair,
And looked on me with loathing.

But one came
Who laid a cloak on me and brought me in
Tenderly to an hostel quiet and clean;
Used me with healing hands for all my needs.
The mortal stain of my reputed sin,
My state despised, and my defilèd weeds,
He hath put by as though they had not been.


Scheme ABABABAX BCXDCDC
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 1111010111 1110110 1011011101 1100111101001 01101011 0111111101 0111110 111 1101110110 10011101001 1111011111 0101110101 110101111 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 115
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 7
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 235
Words per stanza (avg) 57
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an eminent English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy". more…

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