Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A FOREST IN BOSNIA
Spirit of Trajan! What a world is here,
What remnant of old Europe in this wood,
Of life primaeval rude as in the year
When thy first legions by the Danube stood.
These are the very Dacians they subdued,
Swineherds and shepherds clad in skins of deer
And fox and marten still, a bestial brood,
Than their own swine begotten swinelier.
The fair oak--forest, their first heritage,
Pastures them still, and still the hollow oak
Receives them in its bosom. Still o'erhead
Upon the stag--head tops, grown hoar with age,
Calm buzzards sit and ancient ravens croak,
And all with solemn life is tenanted.
Scheme | ABCDCEDEBFGCHGC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0100100 1011010111 1101110011 11111001 1111010101 110101101 101010111 0101010101 11110101 0111011100 1011010101 011011011 0101111111 1101010101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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