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
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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Isaac Rosenberg

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

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