Analysis of Sonnet
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
(Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)
Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun,
We’ll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread
Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead
Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run
Down some close-covered by-way of the air,
Some low sweet alley between wind and wind,
Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find
Some whispering ghost-forgotten nook, and there
Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
Scheme | X ABBACDDC EFEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101110010100100110001 1111100101 1110010111 1101110101 1011110101 1111011101 1111001101 110111011 11001010101 10110100101 1101010001 1111011101 1110010101 011111010101 01110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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