Analysis of V. The Soldier
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 1111010101 1111010111 0111010101 0111011101 11010110111 01011010101 1101011111 0111110101 0100010111 1110111010 0101110101 0101110100 01111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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