Analysis of Wonderment

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)



Then a wind blew;
And he who had forgot he moved
Lonely amid the green and silver morning weather,
Suddenly grew
Aware of clouds and trees
Gleaming and white and shafted, shaken together
And blown to music by the ruffling breeze.

Like flush of wings
The moment passed: he stood
Dazzled with blossom in the swaying wood;
Then he remembered how, through all swift things,
This mortal scene stands built of memories,—
Shaped by the wise
Who gazed in breathing wonderment,
And left us their brave eyes
To light the ways they went.


Scheme AXBACBC DEEDCFXFX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 01110111 1001010101010 1001 011101 100101010010 01110101001 1111 010111 1011000101 1101011111 1101111100 1101 11010100 011111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 533
Words 96
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 9
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 211
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 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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