Analysis of A Memory (From A Sonnet- Sequence)
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept
Softly along the dim way to your room,
And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom,
And holiness about you as you slept.
I knelt there; till your waking fingers crept
About my head, and held it. I had rest
Unhoped this side of Heaven, beneath your breast.
I knelt a long time, still; nor even wept.
It was great wrong you did me; and for gain
Of that poor moment's kindliness, and ease,
And sleepy mother-comfort!
Child, you know
How easily love leaps out to dreams like these,
Who has seen them true. And love that's wakened so
Takes all too long to lay asleep again.
Scheme | ABBAAAAA XCADCDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 101011101 1001011111 0111000101 0100011111 1111110101 0111011111 1111100111 1101111101 1111111011 11110101 0101010 111 11001111111 1111101111 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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