This is an analysis of 'In The Pink' by Siegfried Sassoon.

So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. '
Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie '…

Browse poems by Siegfried Sassoon

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbb acacdd efefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 110110110011 1101111011101 0101011101 01111101110 11011111101 1011010111 1101111001 1111011101 1111110101 0011010101 0111110001 0101011101 1111010111 10010111110 11001011101 11011100010 0110011111 1101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

', he, in, and

Anaphora

he

Epiphora

'