Analysis of Thiepval Wood
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows boom;
The shell-fountains leap from the swamps, and with wildfire and fume
The shoulder of the chalkdown convulses.
Then the jabbering echoes stampede in the slatting wood,
Ember-black the gibbet trees like bones or thorns protrude
From the poisonous smoke – past all impulses.
To them these silvery dews can never again be dear,
Nor the blue javelin-flame of the thunderous noons strike fear.
Scheme | AABCDBEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111010110010101 01101101011001 0101011 10110010011 101011111101 10100111100 11110011100111 101100110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 372 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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