Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A second warning, nor unheeded. Yet
The thought appealed to me as no strange thing,
Pure though I was, that love impure had set
Its seal on that fair woman in her Spring.
Her broken beauty did not mar her grace
In form or spirit. Nay, it rather moved.
It seemed a natural thing for that gay face
It should have known and suffered and been loved.
It kindled in me, too, to view it thus,
A mood of daring which was more than mine,
And made my shamefaced heart leap valorous,
And fired its courage to a zeal divine.
All this, in one short instant, as I gazed
Into her eyes, admiring, yet amazed.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGCGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 0101111111 1111110111 1111110001 0101011101 0111011101 11010011111 1111010011 1100111111 0111011111 0111111 01011010101 1101110111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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