This is an analysis of Girl To A Soldier On Leave by Isaac Rosenberg.

Girl To A Soldier On Leave
Love! You love me — your eyes…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaBCX dbea XXda bfeX Xabf XXXX aBCX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001011 111111 111111 11100111 111110 1111010 111110 1010101 111111 1011010 01100 110101110 010101 1011011 1111 1010101 10111 1010101 1010011 1010101 11111 011100101 101111 11010111 10100110 111111 111111 11100111 111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

i, you

Anaphora

i