This is an analysis of Retrospect by Rupert Brooke.
In your arms was still delight,
Quiet as a street at night;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaggcXddeeccgg ffhheeiiXffXjj X
- Stanza lengths: 26,14,1,
- Metre: 0111101 1010111 110111010 011001010 01100101 1011101 10000111 1010011 11010111 0010011 01010011 01110011 1011101 11010101 010101001 1011110 0110001 011100 1010111 1110011 10010011 1000100 11110101 10001101 01011111 11110011 11001111 10011111 1011111 11111001 11010101 11011111 110011101 11111101 11101100 111111001 1111101 0111000 1011111 11111111 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, you
Anaphora
were, in, and