Analysis of A Mood
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
You are so light and gay,
So slight, sweet maid-
Your limbs like leaves in play,
Or beams that grasses braid :
O ! Joys whose jewels pray
My breast to be inlaid.
Frail fairy of the streets ;
Strong, dainty lure;
For all men's eyes the sweets
Whose lack makes hearts so poor ;
While your heart loveless beats.
Light, laughing, and impure.
O ! Fragrant waft of flesh,
Float through me so-
My limbs are in your mesh,
My blood forgets to flow ;
Ah ! Lilied meadows fresh,
It knows where it would go.
Scheme | ABABAB CDCXCD EFEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1111 111101 111101 111101 11111 110101 1101 111101 111111 111101 110001 110111 1111 111011 110111 1111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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