Analysis of A Channel Passage
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew
I must think hard of something, or be sick;
And could think hard of only one thing -- YOU!
You, you alone could hold my fancy ever!
And with you memories come, sharp pain, and dole.
Now there's a choice -- heartache or tortured liver!
A sea-sick body, or a you-sick soul!
Do I forget you? Retchings twist and tie me,
Old meat, good meals, brown gobbets, up I throw.
Do I remember? Acrid return and slimy,
The sobs and slobber of a last years woe.
And still the sick ship rolls. 'Tis hard, I tell ye,
To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011001 1111011111 1111110111 0111110111 11011111010 01110011101 1101111010 0111010111 1101111011 111111111 110101001010 0101010111 01011111111 111101001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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