Analysis of Hospital Barge at Cerisy
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
Budging the sluggard ripples of the Somme,
A barge round old Cérisy slowly slewed.
Softly her engines down the current screwed,
And chuckled softly with contented hum,
Till fairy tinklings struck their croonings dumb.
The waters rumpling at the stern subdued;
The lock-gate took her bulging amplitude;
Gently from out the gurgling lock she swum.
One reading by that calm bank shaded eyes
To watch her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDBCDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110101 011111101 1001010101 0101010101 11011111 010110101 011101010 10110100111 1101111101 11010010100 1111010101 0111111 110100100 1100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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