Analysis of An Autumn Sonnet
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
These little presents of your tenderness,
Although less grand a gift than was your love,
Are dear to me in this October stress
Of wind and war and whirling leaves above.
They comfort my soul's Autumn, and they prove
How little time can do, to ban or bless,
How much ourselves. You willed the years should move
Back in their cycle. And behold, love, this!
--Now, therefore, let us mark this fortunate day,
And use it for our feast day. Every year
Let us, when winds are high and the leaves fall,
Hold in this house our love's memorial,
Sitting thus hand in hand. Still let me lay
As in the happy days, ere leaves were sere,
My head upon your lap and call you ``dear.''
Scheme | ABCBDCDEFGHIFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101011100 111011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110011 1101111111 11001110111 1011000111 1111111001 011110111001 1111110011 10111010100 1011011111 1001011101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 514 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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