This is an analysis of The Female God by Isaac Rosenberg.

We curl into your eyes-
They drink our files and have never drained :…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcX XaaX cXXa XaXX baXbXacbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 110011 111111101 00110011 10101101110 011101 111011 111110101 11110100011 10101010101 1101111000 001010111001 11110100110 110100 0111110011 1110110101010 1111010101 11010101 11110100101 110010001001 1101010111 11110011 110011 11111101101001 11
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

you, our, your

Anaphora

you, our

Epiphora

world