Analysis of Soldier: Twentieth Century
Isaac Rosenberg 1890 (Bristol) – 1918 (Somme)
I love you, great new Titan!
Am I not you?
Napoleon or Caesar
Out of you grew.
Out of the unthinkable torture,
Eyes kissed by death,
Won back to the world again,
Lost and won in a breath,
Cruel men are made immortal,
Out of your pain born.
They have stolen the sun’s power
With their feet on your shoulders worn.
Let them shrink from your girth,
That has outgrown the pallid days,
When you slept like Circe’s swine,
Or a word in the brain’s way.
Scheme | XABA BCXC XDBD XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111110 1111 0100110 1111 110010010 1111 1110101 101001 10111010 11111 11100110 11111101 111111 1110101 111111 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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