Analysis of The Destruction Of Jerusalem By The Babylonian Hordes
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
They left their Babylon bare
Of all its tall men,
Of all its proud horses ;
They made for Lebanon.
And shadowy sowers went
Before their spears to sow
The fruit whose taste is ash,
For Judah's soul to know.
They who bowed to the Bull god,
Whose wings roofed Babylon,
In endless hosts darkened
The bright-heavened Lebanon.
They washed their grime in pools
Where laughing girls forgot
The wiles they used for Solomon.
Sweet laughter, remembered not !
Sweet laughter charred in the flame
That clutched the cloud and earth,
While Solomon's towers crashed between
To a gird of Babylon's mirth.
Scheme | XXXA XXXX XXXA XBAB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111101 11111 111110 111100 0100101 011111 011111 11111 1111011 11110 010110 011100 111101 110101 01111100 1100101 1101001 110101 110010101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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