Analysis of A Woman’s Sonnets: VII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
What have I gained? A little charity?
I never more may dare to fling a stone
At any weakness, nor make boast that I
A better fence or fortitude had shown;
Some learning? I in love's lore have grown wise,
Plucked apples of the evil and the good,
Made one short trespass into Paradise
And known the full taste of forbidden food.
But love, if it be gold, has much alloy,
And I would gladly buy back ignorance,
But for the thought which still is my heart's joy
That once your life grew happier in my hands,
That in your darkest and most troubled hour
I had, like Jesse's son, a soothing power.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010100 1101111101 1101011111 010111011 1101011111 1101010001 11110110 0101111001 111111111 0111011100 1101111111 11111100011 10110011010 11110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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