Analysis of Can you Remember?
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
Yes, I still remember
The whole thing in a way;
Edge and exactitude
Depend on the day.
Of all that prodigious scene
There seems scanty loss,
Though mists mainly float and screen
Canal, spire and fosse;
Though commonly I fail to name
That once obvious Hill,
And where we went and whence we came
To be killed, or kill.
Those mists are spiritual
And luminous-obscure,
Evolved of countless circumstance
Of which I am sure;
Of which, at the instance
Of sound, smell, change and stir,
New-old shapes for ever
Intensely recur.
And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,
Young, heroic, mild;
And some incurable, twisted,
Shrieking, dumb, defiled.
Scheme | ABCB DXDX EFEFXGXG XAAA XXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 011001 10010 01101 1110101 11101 1110101 01101 11001111 111001 01110111 11111 1111000 010001 0111010 11111 111010 111101 111110 01001 011101010 10101 01010010 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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