Analysis of Wirers
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
‘Pass it along, the wiring party’s going out’—
And yawning sentries mumble, ‘Wirers going out.’
Unravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud,
They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood.
The Boche sends up a flare. Black forms stand rigid there,
Stock-still like posts; then darkness, and the clumsy ghosts
Stride hither and thither, whispering, tripped by clutching snare
Of snags and tangles.
Ghastly dawn with vaporous coasts
Gleams desolate along the sky, night’s misery ended.
Young Hughes was badly hit; I heard him carried away,
Moaning at every lurch; no doubt he’ll die to-day.
But we can say the front-line wire’s been safely mended.
Scheme | AABB CDCXDB EEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101101 01010101101 11010011101 111101010011 011101111101 111111000101 1100110011101 11010 101111 11000101110010 1111011111001 1011001111111 11110111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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