Analysis of The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
Where tongues were loud and hearts were light
I heard the Ancre flow;
Waking oft at the mid of night
I heard the Ancre flow.
I heard it crying, that sad rill,
Below the painful ridge
By the burnt unraftered mill
And the relic of a bridge.
And could this sighing river seem
To call me far away,
And its pale word dismiss as dream
The voices of to-day?
The voices in the bright room chilled
And that mourned on alone;
The silence of the full moon filled
With that brook's troubling tone.
The struggling Ancre had no part
In these new hours of mine,
And yet its stream ran through my heart;
I heard it grieve and pine,
As if its rainy tortured blood
Had swirled into my own,
When by its battered bank I stood
And shared its wounded moan.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11011 10110111 11011 11110111 010101 10111 0010101 01110101 111101 01110111 010111 01000111 011101 01010111 1111001 01001111 0111011 01111111 111101 11110101 110111 11110111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 12, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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