The Life Beyond
Rupert Brooke 1887 (Rugby) – 1915 (Aegean Sea)
He wakes, who never thought to wake again,
Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes
Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain
Closed down by the strange eyeless heavens.
He lies;
And waits; and once in timeless sick surmise
Through the dead air heaves up an unknown hand,
Like a dry branch. No life is in that land,
Himself not lives, but is a thing that cries;
An unmeaning point upon the mud; a speck
Of moveless horror; an Immortal One
Cleansed of the world, sentient and dead; a fly
Fast-stuck in grey sweat on a corpse’s neck.
I though when love for you died, I should die.
It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | XAXXAABBACXDC DX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 2 |
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