Analysis of Conscious



His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed.
His eyes come open with a pull of will,
Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head.
A blind-cord drawls across the window-sill . . .
How smooth the floor of the ward is! what a rug!
And who's that talking, somewhere out of sight?
Why are they laughing? What's inside that jug?
"Nurse! Doctor!" "Yes; all right, all right."

But sudden dusk bewilders all the air--
There seems no time to want a drink of water.
Nurse looks so far away. And everywhere
Music and roses burnt through crimson slaughter.
Cold; cold; he's cold; and yet so hot:
And there's no light to see the voices by--
No time to dream, and ask--he knows not what.


Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101010101 1111010111 11010110111 0111010101 11011011101 011101111 1111010111 11011111 1101010101 11111101110 111101010 10010111010 11110111 0111110101 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 659
Words 125
Sentences 17
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 7
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 251
Words per stanza (avg) 63
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. more…

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