First Fruit

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



I did not pluck at all,
And I am sorry now :
The garden is not barred
But the boughs are heavy with snow,
The flake-blossoms thickly fall
And the hid roots sigh, 'How long will our flowers be marred ?'

Strange as a bird were dumb,
Strange as a hueless leaf.
As one deaf hungers to hear,
Or gazes without belief,
The fruit yearned 'Fingers, come !'
0, shut hands, be empty another year.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBXAB CDXDCX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 383
Words 76
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6

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