Analysis of Expression

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



Call-call--and bruise the air :
Shatter dumb space!
Yea! We will ding this passion everywhere ;
Leaving no place

For the superb and grave
Magnificent throng,
The pregnant queens of quietness that brave
And edge our song

Of wonder at the light
(Our life-leased home),
Of greeting to our housemates.
And in might Our song shall roam

Life's heart, a blossoming fire
Blown bright by thought,
While gleams and fades the infinite desire,
Phantasmed naught.

Can this be caught and caged?
Wings can be clipt
Of eagles, the sun's gaudy measure gauged,
But no sense dipt

In the mystery of sense : The troubled throng
Of words break out like smothered fire through
Dense
And smouldering, wrong.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFBF GHGH IEIE DXXD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 110101 1011 111111010 1011 100101 01001 0101110011 01101 110101 10111 1101101 00110111 11010010 1111 11010100010 11 111101 1111 1100110101 1111 00100110101 1111110101 1 011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 668
Words 116
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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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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