Analysis of The Charm
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
In darkness the loud sea makes moan;
And earth is shaken, and all evils creep
About her ways.
Oh, now to know you sleep!
Out of the whirling blinding moil, alone,
Out of the slow grim fight,
One thought to wing -- to you, asleep,
In some cool room that's open to the night
Lying half-forward, breathing quietly,
One white hand on the white
Unrumpled sheet, and the ever-moving hair
Quiet and still at length! . . .
Your magic and your beauty and your strength,
Like hills at noon or sunlight on a tree,
Sleeping prevail in earth and air.
In the sweet gloom above the brown and white
Night benedictions hover; and the winds of night
Move gently round the room, and watch you there.
And through the dreadful hours
The trees and waters and the hills have kept
The sacred vigil while you slept,
And lay a way of dew and flowers
Where your feet, your morning feet, shall tread.
And still the darkness ebbs about your bed.
Quiet, and strange, and loving-kind, you sleep.
And holy joy about the earth is shed;
And holiness upon the deep.
Scheme | ABXBACBCDCEF FDE CCEGHHGI IBIB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001111 0111001101 0101 111111 1101010101 110111 11111101 0111110101 1011010100 111101 110010101 100111 1100110011 111111101 10010101 0011010101 111000111 1101010111 0101010 0101000111 01010111 010111010 111110111 0101010111 1001010111 0101010111 01000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 3, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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