Analysis of Mummia
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
As those of old drank mummia
To fire their limbs of lead,
Making dead kings from Africa
Stand pandar to their bed;
Drunk on the dead, and medicined
With spiced imperial dust,
In a short night they reeled to find
Ten centuries of lust.
So I, from paint, stone, tale, and rhyme,
Stuffed love's infinity,
And sucked all lovers of all time
To rarify ecstasy.
Helen's the hair shuts out from me
Verona's livid skies;
Gypsy the lips I press; and see
Two Antonys in your eyes.
The unheard invisible lovely dead
Lie with us in this place,
And ghostly hands above my head
Close face to straining face;
Their blood is wine along our limbs;
Their whispering voices wreathe
Savage forgotten drowsy hymns
Under the names we breathe;
Woven from their tomb, and one with it,
The night wherein we press;
Their thousand pitchy pyres have lit
Your flaming nakedness.
For the uttermost years have cried and clung
To kiss your mouth to mine;
And hair long dust was caught, was flung,
Hand shaken to hand divine,
And Life has fired, and Death not shaded,
All Time's uncounted bliss,
And the height o' the world has flamed and faded,
Love, that our love be this!
Scheme | ABXB BCXC ADAD AEDE BFBF GHGH IXIE JKJK XLXL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 1101111 10111100 11111 110101 1101001 00111111 110011 11111101 110100 01110111 11100 10011111 1101 10011101 11011 0010100101 111011 01010111 111101 111101101 1100101 10010101 100111 101110111 010111 11011011 1101 10111101 111111 01111111 1101101 0111001110 11101 00110111010 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,131 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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