Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: X
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
An instant, just an instant, and no more,
And it was gone, and I with eyes unsealed
Saw the bald pageant stripped to its thought's core,
And naked there to my scared eyes revealed.
Upon a throne which filled the upper space
Two female monsters sat, the first a girl
Marked like a leopard with pied arms and face,
And restless eyes aflame and teeth of pearl.
Her as we ventured near, I heard awhile
Say she was hungry, and a gleam like blood
Lighted her lips and died in a fierce smile.
A woman's hand behind me in the crowd
Clutched at my arm, and through the booth there went
A shiver of half fear, half merriment.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGHB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110011 0111011101 1011011111 0101111101 0101110101 111010101 1101011101 0101010111 0111011101 1111000111 1001010011 0101011001 1111010111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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