Analysis of Waikiki
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree
Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes
Somewhere an `eukaleli' thrills and cries
And stabs with pain the night's brown savagery.
And dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,
Gleam like a woman's hair, stretch out, and rise;
And new stars burn into the ancient skies,
Over the murmurous soft Hawaian sea.
And I recall, lose, grasp, forget again,
And still remember, a tale I have heard, or known,
An empty tale, of idleness and pain,
Of two that loved -- or did not love -- and one
Whose perplexed heart did evil, foolishly,
A long while since, and by some other sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011101 1101011011 111101 0111011100 01110011111 1101011101 0111010101 1001111 011110101 010100111111 1101110001 1111111101 1011110100 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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