This is an analysis of Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke.

There was a damned successful Poet;
There was a Woman like the Sun.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefgghhXbedbeaacc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,18,
  • Metre: 110101010 11010101 110110110 10111111 101101 010101 111111 110101 111111001 11110101 110011111 10010101 101101 101101 111111 011111 11011101 11011101 010101 11 110010111 111101 111111 100101 010001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

they, and, to

Anaphora

there, they