This is an analysis of Beginning, The by Rupert Brooke.

Some day I shall rise and leave my friends
And seek you again through the world's far ends,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddeeXXffbcffaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 111111111 1110110111 111111 101111011 110100110 110111101 1010010101 111101111 1110110111 00111010 011111100 1110100111 111101101 110111101 11011110 010011111 110101111 11110110111 1010111011 111010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

my, and