Analysis of Jessie

Thomas Edward Brown 1830 – 1897



WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast,
   And yields the golden keys,
Then is it as if God caress'd
   Twin babes upon His knees--
Twin babes that, each to other press'd,
Just feel the Father's arms, wherewith they both are bless'd.

But when I think if we must part,
   And all this personal dream be fled--
O then my heart! O then my useless heart!
   Would God that thou wert dead--
A clod insensible to joys and ills--
A stone remote in some bleak gully of the hills!


Scheme ABABAA CDCDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11011011 010101 11111101 110111 11111101 11010111111 11111111 011100111 1111111101 111111 0101001101 010101110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 479
Words 90
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Edward Brown

Thomas Edward Brown Manx poet scholar and theologian was born at Douglas Isle of Man and educated at King Williams College more…

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