Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. March
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A WEEK AT PARIS
When loud March from the East begins to blow,
And earth and heaven are black, then off we hie
By the night train to Paris, where we know
Three windows set to the meridian sky,
A third floor in the Rue de Rivoli.
There we will stop and see the fair world move
For our sole pleasure past us, you and I,
And make pretence we are once more in love.
We need not fret at loss of pence or time,
Though Father Bignon's smiles are paid in gold.
This life in idleness is more sublime
Than all our toil and all our wealth twice told.
We need not fret. To--night for us shall Faure,
Sara, Dupuis, or L'heritier unfold
New stores of mirth and music, and once more
We two shall sup, and at the Maison d'or.
Scheme | X AXABAXBX CDCDEDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 1111010111 01010111111 1011110111 11011001001 01100111 1111010111 11011011101 011111101 1111111111 110111101 1101001101 111010110111 1111111111 10011101 1111010011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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