This is an analysis of Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body by Rupert Brooke.

How can we find? how can we rest? how can
We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbbecddXXhhiidhbb
  • Stanza lengths: 30,
  • Metre: 1111111111 11011111101 1011000101 1101001101 0101010101 1011110101 1111111111 01011101101 1101010101 1111111111 1111010101 10010100101 10010101111 01010100101 1001000101 0101110001 11011110001 01001010101 1111011100 110101101011 1111010011 1011111100 1100000100 1111000100 1001001111 1001011011 1101010010 1011000110 10001110001 10010100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

we, how, can, and, from

Anaphora

we