Analysis of Pill-Box

Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)



Just see what's happening, Worley.-Worley rose
And round the angled doorway thrust his nose,
And Sergeant Hoad went too. to snuff the air.
Then war brought down his fist, and missed the pair!
Yet Hoad was scratched by a splinter, the blood came,
And out burst terrors that he'd striven to tame.
A good man, Hoad, for weeks. I'm blown to bits.
He groans, he screams. Come, Bluffer, where's your wits?
Says Worley. Bluffer, you've a blighty, man!
All in the pillbox urged him, here began
His freedom: Think of Eastbourne and your dad.
The poor man lay at length and brief and mad
Flung out his cry of doom; soon ebbed and dumb
He yielded. Worley with a tot of rum
And shouting in his face could not restore him.
The ship of Charon over channel bore him.
All marvelled even on that most deathly day
To see this life so spirited away.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 11110010101 010101111 0101111101 1111110101 11111010011 01110111011 0111111111 1111110111 110101011 100111101 110111011 0111110101 11111111001 1101010111 01001111011 01110101011 1110111101 1111110001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 821
Words 157
Sentences 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 640
Words per stanza (avg) 154
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edmund Blunden

Edmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. more…

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