Analysis of Concert Party: Busseboom
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
The stage was set, the house was packed,
The famous troop began;
Our laughter thundered, act by act;
Time light as sunbeams ran.
Dance sprang and spun and neared and fled,
Jest chirped at gayest pitch,
Rhythm dazzled, action sped
Most comically rich.
With generals and lame privates both
Such charms worked wonders, till
The show was over – lagging loth
We faced the sunset chill;
And standing on the sandy way,
With the cracked church peering past,
We heard another matinée,
We heard the maniac blast
Of barrage south by Saint Eloi,
And the red lights flaming there
Called madness: Come, my bonny boy,
And dance to the latest air.
To this new concert, white we stood;
Cold certainty held our breath;
While men in tunnels below Larch Wood
Were kicking men to death.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE XFXF EGXG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110111 010101 101010111 11111 11010101 11111 1010101 110001 110001101 111101 01110101 11011 01010101 1011101 1101011 110101 1011111 0011101 11011101 0110101 11110111 11001101 110100111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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