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 |
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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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