Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I lived with Esther, not for many days,
If days be counted by the fall of night
And the sun's rising, yet through years of praise,
If truth be timepiece of joys infinite.
And what a life it was! No vain sweet dream
Of love in idleness which all men know,
But a full drama fashioned on the theme
Of strength victorious over death and woe.
Here was no faltering. Ours the triumph was
Of that strong logic which beholds each day
As a new world to conquer, and the cause
Itself complete of a more glorious fray.
To--day our cycle was. In it sublime
We sat enthroned as on the neck of Time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 1111010111 0011011111 111111100 0101111111 1101001111 1011010101 11010010101 111100100101 111101111 1011110001 01011011001 11101010101 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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