This is an analysis of Funeral Of Youth, The: Threnody by Rupert Brooke.

The day that YOUTH had died,
There came to his grave-side,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcabcdXeXaeffaaggaaaaXccXhaadiXdXiagjjkekaealbhlbhmmmll
  • Stanza lengths: 58,
  • Metre: 011111 110011 0101000101 1101 11101010001 11011101110 0111110101 0111110001 111101 11100 1001011101 1100100 11010011111 101111 1011 0101110101 1101010101 1011110101 1101111101 1101011111001 1101010 0101010 11110010111 10111 01010100010 11010010101 01001010111 01111110000 1101110 1011111101 01001010101 1101 01001110101 11010101000 1100010100 1101110100 1100110101 1011010101 1101001101 0101010101 1111110101 110101 1011 1001111101 11001010101 1001110101 0101111101 11011110111 10100111110 101111 1111110101 01011101110 11010111001 1011110100 111100 10101110101 1101110101 101101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 58

Repeated words/phrases

and, her

Anaphora

the, and