Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I must not speak of it. Even yet my heart
Is but a feeble thing to fret and cry,
And it might chance to wake and with a start,
When nights were still and stars were in the sky,
Sit up and muse upon its lonely state,
With the same stars to mock at it as then,
And certain chords that touched might touch it yet,
And griefs find issue and tears come again.
I must not venture farther in this mood.
Grief is forsworn to me. I will not grieve,
Nor think too much on Esther's womanhood,
Rather on that which was its make--believe.
And yet awhile she loved me. In this thought
I long found rest when all was come to nought.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGHGIA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110111 1101011101 0111110101 1101010001 1101011101 1011111111 0101111111 0111001101 1111010011 111111111 11111110 1011111101 0101111011 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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