Analysis of Chagrin
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
Caught still as Absalom,
Surely the air hangs
From the swayless cloud-boughs
Like hair of Absalom
Caught and hanging still.
From the imagined weight
Of spaces in a sky
Of mute chagrin my thoughts
Hang like branch-clung hair
To trunks of silence swung,
With the choked soul weighing down
Into thick emptiness.
Christ, end this hanging death,
For endlessness hangs therefrom !
Invisibly branches break
From invisible trees:
The cloud-woods where we rush
(Our eyes holding so much),
Which we must ride dim ages round
Ere the hands (we dream) can touch,
We ride, we ride-before the morning
The secret roots of the sun to tread-
And suddenly
We are lifted of all we know,
And hang from implacable boughs.
Scheme | AXBA XXXXXXXXXA XXXCXCXXXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111100 10011 10111 111100 10101 100101 110001 110111 11111 111101 1011101 011100 111101 1111 1101 101001 011111 1011011 11111101 1011111 111101010 010110111 0100 11101111 01101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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