Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XLVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Sublime discussions! Let who will be wise!
These are the things that touch us and transcend.
The logic of all beauty is surprise,
The reason of all love the unseen end.
Still as they argued on of this and that,
Turning perchance to me as arbiter
Where in my corner I still speechless sat
To end their strife, my vision seemed to clear,
The scales fell from my eyes of ignorance,
The terror from my heart. One thing alone
Stood plain before me, the supreme fair chance
Of a first fortune, glorious and unknown,
Which beckoned me with no uncertain hand
To touch and taste and learn and understand.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGHGII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011111 1101111001 0101110101 0101110011 1111011101 1001111100 1011011101 1111110111 0111111100 0101111101 1101100111 10110100001 1101110101 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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