The Wayfarers
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place
Made fair by one another for a while.
Now, for a god-speed, one last mad embrace;
The long road then, unlit by your faint smile.
Ah! the long road! and you so far away!
Oh, I’ll remember! but … each crawling day
Will pale a little your scarlet lips, each mile
Dull the dear pain of your remembered face.
…Do you think there’s a far border town, somewhere,
The desert’s edge, last of the lands we know,
Some gaunt eventual limit of our light,
In which I’ll find you waiting; and we’ll go
Together, hand in hand again, out there,
Into the waste we know not, into the night?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABCCBA DEFEDF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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