Analysis of Picture-Show
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,
With glad or grievous hearts I’ll never understand
Because Time spins so fast, and they’ve no time to stay
Beyond the moment’s gesture of a lifted hand.
And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,
The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same
As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been...
And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.
Scheme | AABCBC DDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011111 110111110101 111101010111 11110111001 011111011111 010101010101 01010100101 0101111101001 101111111011 011101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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