Analysis of Sonnet: Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and loneliness and mire
Of the last land! There, waiting patiently,
One day, I think, I’ll feel a cool wind blowing,
See a slow light across the Stygian tide,
And hear the Dead about me stir, unknowing,
And tremble. And I shall know that you have died,
And watch you, a broad-browed and smiling dream,
Pass, light as ever, through the lightless host,
Quietly ponder, start, and sway, and gleam—
Most individual and bewildering ghost!—
And turn, and toss your brown delightful head
Amusedly, among the ancient Dead.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101110 1101011100 0101010001 1011110100 11111101110 10110101001 01010111010 01001111111 0110110101 111101011 1001010101 10100001001 0101110101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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