Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
HE HAS FALLEN FROM THE HEIGHT OF HIS LOVE
Love, how ignobly hast thou met thy doom!
Ill--seasoned scaffolding by which, full--fraught
With passionate youth and mighty hopes, we clomb
To our heart's heaven, fearing, doubting, naught!
Oh love, thou wert too frail for such mad sport,
Too rotten at thy core, designed too high:
And we who trusted thee our death have bought,
And bleeding on the ground must surely die.
--I will not see her. What she now may be
I care not. For the dream within my brain
Is fairer, nobler, and more kind than she;
And with that vision I can mock at pain.
God! Was there ever woman half so sweet,
Or death so bitter, or at such dear feet?
Scheme | ABCBCDEFEGHGHII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110101111 11111111 1101001111 11001010111 11011010101 1111111111 1101110111 01110110111 0101011101 1111011111 1111010111 1101001111 0111011111 1111010111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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