Analysis of Success

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




I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
 If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
And found my wild sick blasphemous prayer granted,
 And your brown face, that's full of pity and wise,
Flushed suddenly; the white godhead in new fear
 Intolerably so struggling, and so shamed;
Most holy and far, if you'd come all too near,
 If earth had seen Earth's lordliest wild limbs tamed,
Shaken, and trapped, and shivering, for MY touch --
 Myself should I have slain? or that foul you?
But this the strange gods, who had given so much,
 To have seen and known you, this they might not do.
One last shame's spared me, one black word's unspoken;
 And I'm alone; and you have not awoken.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 11111111110 1111110111 01111100110 01111111001 1100011011 010001100011 11001111111 111111111 10010100111 111111111 11011111011 11101111111 11111111010 010101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 678
Words 129
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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