Analysis of From Night And Day
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
IN THE WORKSHOP
Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,
Faces speechful, barren of soul and sordid,
Huddled and chewing a jest, lewd and gabbled
insidious:
Laughter, born of its dung, flashes and floods like sunlight,
Filling the room with a sense of a soul lethargic and kindly,
Touches my soul with a pathos, a hint of a wide desolation.
II
I saw the face of God to-day,
I heard the music of His smile,
And yet I was not far away,
And yet in Paradise the while.
I lay upon the sparkling grass,
And God's own mouth was kissing me,
And there was nothing that did pass
But blazed with divinity.
Divine-divine-upon my eyes,
Upon mine hair-divine--divine,
The fervour of the golden skies,
The ardent gaze of God on mine.
III
Then snake I to the tree, '
Were ye your own desire
What is it ye would be?'
Answered the tree to me,
'I am my own desire,
I am what 1 would be.
' If you were your desire
Would you lie under me,
And see me as you see?'
'I am my own desire
While I lie under you,
And that which I would be
Desire will sing to you.'
IV
I wander-I wander-0 will she wander here
Where'er my footsteps carry me I know that she is near,
A jewelled lamp within her hand and jewels in her hair ;
I lost her in a vision once and seek her everywhere.
My spirit whispers she is near, I look at you and you :
Surely she has not passed me, I sleeping as she flew.
I wander-I wander, and yet she is not here,
Although my spirit whispers to me that she is near.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001 11001101110 1011011010 1001001101 0100 101111100111 1001101101010010 1011101001101010 1 11011111 11010111 01111101 0101001 11010101 01111101 01110111 1110100 01010111 01110101 0110101 01011111 1 111101 0111010 111111 100111 1111010 11111 1101010 111101 011111 1111010 111101 011111 0101111 1 11011011101 1011101111111 0110101010001 1100010101010 11010111111101 1011111110111 110110011111 111010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,423 |
Words | 292 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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