Analysis of One Day
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
Today I have been happy. All the day
I held the memory of you, and wove
Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray,
And sowed the sky with tiny clouds of love,
And sent you following the white waves of sea,
And crowned your head with fancies, nothing worth,
Stray buds from that old dust of misery,
Being glad with a new foolish quiet mirth.
So lightly I played with those dark memories,
Just as a child, beneath the summer skies,
Plays hour by hour with a strange shining stone,
For which (he knows not) towns were fire of old,
And love has been betrayed, and murder done,
And great kings turned to a little bitter mould.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110101 1101001101 11010101101 0101110111 01110001111 0111110101 1111111100 10110110101 11011111100 1101010101 110110101101 11111101011 0111010101 01111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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