Analysis of Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,
Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,
Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,
And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,
And all the little emptiness of love!
Oh! we who have known shame, we have found release there,
Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,
Nought broken save this body, lost but breath;
Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there
But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
Scheme | ABABCXCX DBEDBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111110 01101011110 11111101010 11110011010 11011101010 101111111 01101101010 0101010011 111111111011 11111111110 1101110111 10110101111 11010001110 00110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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