This is an analysis of Failure by Rupert Brooke.
Because God put His adamantine fate
Between my sullen heart and its desire,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXaaX cccdcd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0111010001 01110110010 1111110101 11111101010 1101110100 1111010111 1101011111 1101110001 1011010001 1101010111 1001010110 0101010101 1101111101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14