Analysis of Honour Dishonoured
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Honoured I lived e'erwhile with honoured men
In opulent state. My table nightly spread
Found guests of worth, peer, priest and citizen,
And poet crowned, and beauty garlanded.
Nor these alone, for hunger too I fed,
And many a lean tramp and sad Magdalen
Passed from my doors less hard for sake of bread.
Whom grudged I ever purse or hand or pen?
To--night, unwelcomed at these gates of woe
I stand with churls, and there is none to greet
My weariness with smile or courtly show
Nor, though I hunger long, to bring me meat.
God! what a little accident of gold
Fences our weakness from the wolves of old!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 01001110101 1111110100 01010101 1101110111 01001101100 1111111111 1111011111 1101011111 1111011111 1100111101 1111011111 1101010011 10101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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