Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
When I hear laughter from a tavern door,
When I see crowds agape and in the rain
Watching on tiptoe and with stifled roar
To see a rocket fired or a bull slain,
When misers handle gold, when orators
Touch strong men's hearts with glory till they weep,
When cities deck their streets for barren wars
Which have laid waste their youth, and when I keep
Calmly the count of my own life and see
On what poor stuff my manhood's dreams were fed
Till I too learned what dole of vanity
Will serve a human soul for daily bread,
--Then I remember that I once was young
And lived with Esther the world's gods among.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1111010001 101101101 11010101011 1101011100 1111110111 1101111101 1111110111 1001111101 111111101 1111111100 1101011101 1101011111 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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