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 |
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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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