Analysis of Girl To A Soldier On leave
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
Girl To A Soldier On Leave
Love! You love me — your eyes
Have looked through death at mine.
You have tempted a grave too much
I let you — I repine.
I love you - Titan lover,
My own storm-days Titan.
Greater than the son of Zeus,
I know whom I would choose.
Titan — my splendid rebel —
The old Prometheus
Wanes like a ghost before your power —
His pangs were joys to yours.
Pallid days arid and wan
Tied your soul fast.
Babel-cities smoky tops
Pressed upon your growth
Weary gyves. What were you
But a word in the brains ways,
Or the sleep of Circes swine.
One gyve holds you yet.
It held you hiddenly on the Somme
Tied from my heart at home.
O must it loosen now? — I wish
You were bound with the old gyves.
Love! you love me — your eyes
Have looked through death at mine.
You have tempted a grave too much.
I let you - I repine.
Scheme | xABCb dxxx xadx xxxx xxbx eexa ABCb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 111111 111111 11100111 11111 1111010 111110 1010111 111111 1011010 011 110101110 110111 1011001 1111 1010101 10111 101101 1010011 101111 11111 1111101 111111 11110111 1011011 111111 111111 11100111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 823 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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