Analysis of Dead Men's Love
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
There was a damned successful Poet;
There was a Woman like the Sun.
And they were dead. They did not know it.
They did not know their time was done.
They did not know his hymns
Were silence; and her limbs,
That had served Love so well,
Dust, and a filthy smell.
And so one day, as ever of old,
Hands out, they hurried, knee to knee;
On fire to cling and kiss and hold
And, in the other's eyes, to see
Each his own tiny face,
And in that long embrace
Feel lip and breast grow warm
To breast and lip and arm.
So knee to knee they sped again,
And laugh to laugh they ran, I'm told,
Across the streets of Hell . . .
And then
They suddenly felt the wind blow cold,
And knew, so closely pressed,
Chill air on lip and breast,
And, with a sick surprise,
The emptiness of eyes.
Scheme | XAXABBCC DEDEFFXX GDCGDHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 11010101 010111111 11111111 111111 010001 111111 100101 011111011 11110111 110110101 00010111 111101 001101 110111 110101 11111101 01111111 010111 01 110010111 011101 111101 010101 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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