Analysis of III. The Dead

Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)




Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
 There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
 But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
 Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
 That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

Blow, bugles, blow!  They brought us, for our dearth,
 Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain.
Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,
 And paid his subjects with a royal wage;
And Nobleness walks in our ways again;
 And we have come into our heritage.


Scheme ABBACXXC DXDXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010011 11111100111 11011110111 1101011101 1111110111 110101101 1111011111 111110100 11011111101 1001110101 111110111 0111010101 011010101 01110110100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 623
Words 120
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 236
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". more…

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