Analysis of A Girls Thoughts

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



Dim apprehension of a trust
Comes over me this quiet hour,
As though the silence were a flower,
And this, its perfume, dark like dust.

My individual self would cling
Through fear, through pride, unto its fears :
It strives to shut out what it hears,
The founts of being murmuring.

0 ! Need, whose hauntings terrorize;
Whether my maiden ways would hide,
Or lose and to that need subside,
Life shrinks and instinct dreads surprise.


Scheme ABBA CXXC DEED
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1010101 110111010 110100010 01101111 10100111 11111011 11111111 01110100 11110 10110111 11011101 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 426
Words 76
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War. more…

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