Analysis of Love
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
Where that comes in that shall not go again;
Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate.
They have known shame, who love unloved. Even then,
When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking,
And agony's forgot, and hushed the crying
Of credulous hearts, in heaven -- such are but taking
Their own poor dreams within their arms, and lying
Each in his lonely night, each with a ghost.
Some share that night. But they know love grows colder,
Grows false and dull, that was sweet lies at most.
Astonishment is no more in hand or shoulder,
But darkens, and dies out from kiss to kiss.
All this is love; and all love is but this.
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Metre | 11010010101 1110111101 110111011 11111101101 1111011111 010101010 1100101011110 11110111010 1011011101 11111111110 1101111111 010011101110 110111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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