Analysis of A Woman’s Sonnets: I
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
If the past year were offered me again,
With choice of good and ill before me set.
Should I be wiser for the bliss and pain
And dare to choose that we had never met?
Could I find heart those happy hours to miss,
When love began unthought of and unspoke
That first strange day when by a sudden kiss
We knew each other's secret and awoke?
Ah, no! not even to escape the smart
Of that fell agony I underwent,
Flying from thee and my own traitor heart,
Till doubts and dreads and battlings overspent,
I knew at last that thou or love or fate
Had conquered and repentance was too late.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 1111010111 1111010101 0111111101 11111101011 11011101 1111110101 1111010001 1111010101 111100101 1011011101 110101101 1111111111 1100010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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