Analysis of The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread,
And out we troop to see:
A single redcoat turns his head,
He turns and looks at me.
My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What thoughts at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 011111 0101111 110111 11111111 110101 11010111 111111 11111101 110111 11110111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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