Analysis of Beginning, The
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Some day I shall rise and leave my friends
And seek you again through the world's far ends,
You whom I found so fair
(Touch of your hands and smell of your hair!),
My only god in the days that were.
My eager feet shall find you again,
Though the sullen years and the mark of pain
Have changed you wholly; for I shall know
(How could I forget having loved you so?),
In the sad half-light of evening,
The face that was all my sunrising.
So then at the ends of the earth I'll stand
And hold you fiercely by either hand,
And seeing your age and ashen hair
I'll curse the thing that once you were,
Because it is changed and pale and old
(Lips that were scarlet, hair that was gold!),
And I loved you before you were old and wise,
When the flame of youth was strong in your eyes,
-- And my heart is sick with memories.
Scheme | AABBCDEFFGGHHBCIIJJK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111110111 0110110111 111111 111101111 110100110 110111101 1010100111 111101111 1110110111 00111110 0111111 1110110111 011101101 010110101 11011110 011110101 110101111 01110110101 1011111011 011111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 621 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 162 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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