Poem Analysis of Town And Country by Rupert Brooke for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Town And Country that begins with:

Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side
Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall.... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cdcd eXef agag eheh bfbf Xiei
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1111010111 1101111111 010011100101 1101101101 1101001101 1011110001 1101010111 1011110101 1011010101 1011110101 11111111001 0101010011 100100111010 10110101010 11110101010 10110101110 1101110111 1101010101 1101010101 1001111101 1111111101 11111101001 1001110101 11110111011 1101100011 1111111111 11000010101 110011111001 11001110011 1111011111 10011001110 1111110101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Town And Country by Rupert Brooke: poem analysis

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