Analysis of I Know The Music
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
All sounds have been as music to my listening:
Pacific lamentations of slow bells,
The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening,
Shuffle of autumn leaves; and all farewells:
Bugles that sadden all the evening air,
And country bells clamouring their last appeals
Before [the] music of the evening prayer;
Bridges, sonorous under carriage wheels.
Gurgle of sluicing surge through hollow rocks,
The gluttonous lapping of the waves on weeds,
Whisper of grass; the myriad-tinkling flocks,
The warbling drawl of flutes and shepherds' reeds.
The orchestral noises of October nights
Blowing ( ) symphonetic storms
Of startled clarions ( )
Drums, rumbling and rolling thunderous and ( ).
Thrilling of throstles in the keen blue dawn,
Bees fumbling and fuming over sainfoin-fields.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XXBX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011100 0101111 011111110100 101101011 1011010101 010111101 0111010101 1010010101 1011011101 01001010111 101101001001 01001110101 00101010101 1011 1101 11000101000 101100111 11000101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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