Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I touched that knee. She did not show surprise,
And the earth had not opened at our feet.
She did not even laugh. Her foolish eyes
Twinkled a moment in her cheeks, then set
Like fog--bound stars for ever from my sight.
And at a signal from the little woman,
Who clung to me still, a chorus left and right
Of laughter rose Homeric and inhuman,
Drowning all further sense in one wild roar.
I heard the spotted girl with leopard lips
Complain that she was hungry as before,
And all the world was merged in an eclipse,
Darkening the air around and overhead,
And then I broke away and turned and fled.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 00111101101 1111010101 1001000111 1111110111 01010101010 11111010101 11010100010 1011010111 1101011101 0111110101 0101110101 10001010101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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