Analysis of Wraiths
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
They know not the green leaves;
In whose earth-haunting dream
Dimly the forest heaves,
And voiceless goes the stream.
Strangely they seek a place
In love’s night-memoried hall;
Peering from face to face,
Until some heart shall call
And keep them, for a breath,
Half-mortal ... (Hark to the rain!)...
They are dead ... (O hear how death
Gropes on the shutter’d pane!)
| Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 011101 100101 010101 101101 01111 101111 011111 011101 1101101 1111111 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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