Analysis of The Dying Soldier
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
' Here are houses,' he moaned,
'I could reach, but my brain swims.'
Then they thundered and flashed,
And shook the earth to its rims.
'They are gunpits,' he gasped,
'Our men are at the guns.
Water! . . . Water! . . , Oh, water !
For one of England's dying sons.'
' We cannot give you water,
Were all England in your breath.'
' Water! . .. Water! . . . Oh, water !'
fie moaned and swooned to death,
| Scheme | XAXA XBCB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011 1111111 111001 0101111 11111 1011101 1010110 11110101 1101110 0110011 1010110 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 22 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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