Analysis of Flight
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Voices out of the shade that cried,
And long noon in the hot calm places,
And children's play by the wayside,
And country eyes, and quiet faces --
All these were round my steady paces.
Those that I could have loved went by me;
Cool gardened homes slept in the sun;
I heard the whisper of water nigh me,
Saw hands that beckoned, shone, were gone
In the green and gold. And I went on.
For if my echoing footfall slept,
Soon a far whispering there'd be
Of a little lonely wind that crept
From tree to tree, and distantly
Followed me, followed me. . . .
But the blue vaporous end of day
Brought peace, and pursuit baffled quite,
Where between pine-woods dipped the way.
I turned, slipped in and out of sight.
I trod as quiet as the night.
The pine-boles kept perpetual hush;
And in the boughs wind never swirled.
I found a flowering lowly bush,
And bowed, slid in, and sighed and curled,
Hidden at rest from all the world.
Safe! I was safe, and glad, I knew!
Yet -- with cold heart and cold wet brows
I lay. And the dark fell. . . . There grew
Meward a sound of shaken boughs;
And ceased, above my intricate house;
And silence, silence, silence found me. . . .
I felt the unfaltering movement creep
Among the leaves. They shed around me
Calm clouds of scent, that I did weep;
And stroked my face. I fell asleep.
Scheme | ABABX CXCXX DCDXC EFEFF XGXGG HIHIX CJCJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 011001110 0101101 010101010 110111010 111111111 11011001 1101011011 11110101 001010111 11110011 10110011 101010111 111101 101101 1011111 11001101 10111101 11100111 11110101 011101001 00011101 110100101 01100101 10111101 11110111 11110111 11001111 1011101 010111001 010101011 1101101 010111011 11111111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,308 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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