Analysis of Hearts First Word. II

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



And all her soft dark hair
Breathed for him like a prayer,
And her white lost face
Was prisoned to sonie far place.
Love was not denied-
Love's ends would hide,
And Hower and fruit and tree
Were under its sea.
Yea, its abundance knelt
Where the nerves felt
The springs of feeling flow
And made pain grow !
There seemed no root or sky,
But a pent infinity
Where apparitions dim
Sculptured each whim
In dame and wandering mist
Of kisses to be kist.

LADY, YOU ARE MY GOD

Lady, you are my God-
Lady, you are my Heaven.

If I am your God
Labour for your Heaven.

Lady, you are my God,
And shall not love win Heaven ?

If love made me God
Deeds must win my Heaven.

If my love made you God,
What more can 1 for Heaven ?


Scheme aabbccddeeffxdgghh I Ij ij Ij ij ij
Poetic Form
Metre 010111 111101 00111 1101111 11101 1111 0100101 01011 110101 1011 011101 0111 111111 1010100 10101 1011 0101001 110111 101111 101111 1011110 11111 11110 101111 0111110 11111 111110 111111 111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 690
Words 143
Sentences 10
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 18, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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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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