This is an analysis of One Before The Last, The by Rupert Brooke.

I dreamt I was in love again
With the One Before the Last,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fgfg gcgX hihi jbjX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110101 0010101 11010101 0110011 111011110 011001 101010111 010111 01111111 011111 101010111 111111 101101010 1010001 110000010 110101 101101111 110101 111111011 10110100 1001001111 100101 110101011 110101 110111010 110100 110101110 110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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