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
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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Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War. more…

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