Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XLV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I followed dumb and shrinking like a thief
Close in her shadow from the women's guess,
Yet ruthlessly betrayed for my cheeks' grief
From head to foot in the tall pier--glasses.
My vagabond attire, my coat all rags,
My tattered plaid stained with the summer's dust,
The sash which bound my waist all gaps and jags,
With gaiters frayed and such sad shoes as must
Have served Ulysses at his journey's close;
All these I saw revealed to my disgrace,
My hat still crowned with its last Alpine rose,
And what she had called my ``John the Baptist's face''
Red with confusion and the rage of youth,
I saw it all, the whole remorseless truth.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGHGII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 100110101 1100011111 1111001110 11000101111 1101110101 0111111101 111011111 110101111 1111011101 111111111 0111111011 1101000111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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