Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Nor later, when with her my childhood died,
Was life less sealed to me. The Church became
My guardian next and mother deified,
Who lit within me a more subtle flame
Of constancy, and clothed me in her mood.
No sound, no voice within that sanctuary
Told me of common evil. Unsubdued
And vast and strange, a thing from which to flee,
The world lay there without us. We within,
Fenced in and folded safe in our strong home,
Knew nothing of the sorrow and the sin.
'Tis no small matter to have lived in Rome,
In the Church's very bosom and abode,
Cloistered and cradled there, a child of God.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 1111110101 1100101010 1101101101 1100011001 1111011100 11110101 0101011111 0111011101 10010101011 1101010001 1111011101 00101010001 100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 7 |
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) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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