This is an analysis of Kindliness by Rupert Brooke.

When love has changed to kindliness --
Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabccbddeXeaeabbfggfhfhihijjkkffkkaX
  • Stanza lengths: 36,
  • Metre: 11110100 11110111 11111111 100101101 101000101 01110101 110101010 010011010 010110111 010001000 11011101 01110101 11110101 01011101 10010101 110110101 10000101 11111111 10110101 011101101 11011101 10110101 11011111 10011110 00111011 11010101 11110101 11010101 111101111 10110111 11011011 110110111 11011101 110010111 00110011 11110100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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