Analysis of In The Underworld
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
I have lived in the underworld so long:
How can you, a creature of light,
Without terror understand the song
And unmoved hear what moves in night?
I am a spirit that yours has found,
Strange, undelightful, obscure,
Created by some other God, and bound
In terrible darkness, breathing breath impure.
Creature of light and happiness,
Deeper the darkness was when you,
With your bright terror eddying the distress,
Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111001011 11101011 01100101 00111101 110101111 1101 0101110101 01001010101 10110100 10010111 111101001 10110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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