Analysis of The Female God

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



We curl into your eyes-
They drink our files and have never drained :
In the fierce forest of your hair
Our desires beat blindly for their treasure.

In your eyes' subtle pit,
Far down, glimmer our souls ;
And your hair like massive forest trees
Shadows our pulses, overtired and dumb.

Like a candle lost in an electric glare
Our spirits tread your eyes' infinities :
In the wrecking waves of your tumultuous locks
Do you not hear the moaning of our pulses ?

Queen ! Goddess! Animal!
In sleep do your dreams battle with our souls ?
When your hair is spread like a lover on the pillow
Do not our jealous pulses wake between ?

You have dethroned the ancient God,
You have usurped his Sabbath, his common days;
Yea, every moment is delivered to you,
Our Temple, our Eternal, our one God !

Our souls have passed into your eyes,
Our days into your hair;
And you, our rose-deaf prison, are very pleased with the world,
Your world.


Scheme AXBX XCXX BAXX XCXX DXXD ABEE
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 1110101101 00110111 100101101110 011101 1110101 011110101 11010101 10101010101 10101111 00101111001 111101011010 110100 01111101101 1111110101010 11101010101 11010101 1111101101 110010101011 1010100101011 101110111 1010111 011011101101101 11
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 908
Words 166
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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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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