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 |
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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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