Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: LXXXVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
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Thy ways were not my ways. Thy life was peace,
And mine has been a battle. Thou didst store
Thy soul's wealth sternly to a sure increase,
And thy revenue's much still swelled to more.
Thou squanderedst nothing on the pomp of war,
The lust of glory. No mad covetous eyes
Were thine upon thy neighbour's lands afar,
His wealth, his wife, his fenceless vanities.
Thou wert a brave, just man, whom all men knew
And trusted, and some loved, and thou to me
Wert as a tower of strength, a sanctuary
To which I fled from the world's maddened crew,
Wounded by me, and there with bloodstained hands
Clung to the altar of thy innocence.
Scheme | ABCBCCDEFGHHGIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1101111111 0111010111 1111010101 01111111 111010111 011101111 010111101 1111110100 1101111111 0100110111 11010110100 111110111 101101111 1101011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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