Analysis of Blighters
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin
And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks
Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din;
‘We’re sure the Kaiser loves our dear old Tanks!’
I’d like to see a Tank come down the stalls,
Lurching to rag-time tunes, or ‘Home, sweet Home’,
And there’d be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111101111 0101011101 111010111 01010110111 1111011101 1011111111 0111110101 110101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 393 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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