Analysis of Far Away
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
By what pale light or moon-pale shore
Drifts my soul in lonely flight ?
Regions God had floated o'er
Ere He touched the world with light ?
Not in Heaven and not in earth
Is this water, is this moon ;
For there is no starry birth,
And no dawning and no noon.
Far away-0 far away,
Mist-born-dewy vapours rise
From the dim gates of the day
Far below in earthly skies.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 1110101 10111010 1110111 10100101 1110111 1111101 0110011 101101 111011 1011101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 361 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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