Analysis of Tess
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
The free fair life that has never been mine, the glory that might have been,
If I were what you seem to be and what I may not be !
I know I walk upon the earth, but a dreadful wall between
My spirit and your spirit lies, your joy and my misery.
The angels that lie watching us, the little human play,
What deem they of the laughter and the tears that flow apart ?
When a word of man is a woman's doom do they turn and wonder and say,
'Ah ! Why has God made love so great that love must burst her heart ?'
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111110110101111 11011111011111 111101011010101 110011011101100 01011101010101 11110100011101 101111010111101001 11111111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
| Words per line (avg) | 14 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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