This is an analysis of Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour by Rupert Brooke.
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebfebf
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 110111110010 111111001010 01111111010 01110001010 10011111110 1011110111 11111101110 1101010001 111111111011 11111111110 1101010111 10010101111 11010011110 10111100011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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