Far Away

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



By what pale light or moon-pale shore
Drifts my soul in lonely flight ?
Regions God had floated o'er
Ere He touched the world with light ?

Not in Heaven and not in earth
Is this water, is this moon ;
For there is no starry birth,
And no dawning and no noon.

Far away-0 far away,
Mist-born-dewy vapours rise
From the dim gates of the day
Far below in earthly skies.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BCBC DEDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 361
Words 71
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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