Analysis of Through These Pale Cold Days
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
Through these pale cold days
What dark faces burn
Out of three thousand years,
And their wild eyes yearn,
While underneath their brows
Like waifs their spirits grope
For the pools of Hebron again--
For Lebanon's summer slope.
They leave these blond still days
In dust behind their tread
They see with living eyes
How long they have been dead.
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC ADXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111 11101 111101 01111 10111 111101 10111001 1100101 111111 010111 111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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