Analysis of First Fruit

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



I did not pluck at all,
And I am sorry now :
The garden is not barred
But the boughs are heavy with snow,
The flake-blossoms thickly fall
And the hid roots sigh, 'How long will our flowers be marred ?'

Strange as a bird were dumb,
Strange as a hueless leaf.
As one deaf hungers to hear,
Or gazes without belief,
The fruit yearned 'Fingers, come !'
0, shut hands, be empty another year.


Scheme AXBXAB CDXDCX
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 011101 010111 10111011 0110101 00111111101011 110101 11011 111111 1100101 011101 111100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 383
Words 76
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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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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