Analysis of Don Juans Song

Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)



The moon is in an ecstasy,
It wanes not nor can grow ;
The heavens are in a mist of love,
And deepest knowledge know :
What things in nature seem to move
Bear love as I bear love ?
And bear my pleasures so?

I bear my love as streams that bear
The sky still flow or shake :
Though deep within, too far on high.
Light blossoms kiss and wake
The waters sooner than the sky ;
And if they kiss and (lie
God made them frail to break.


Scheme XABAXBA XCDCDDC
Poetic Form
Metre 01101100 111111 010100111 010101 11010111 111111 011101 11111111 011111 11011111 110101 01010101 011101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 422
Words 88
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Isaac Rosenberg

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