Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I linger on the threshold of my youth.
If you could see me now as then I was,
A fair--faced frightened boy with eyes of truth
Scared at the world yet angry at its laws,
Plotting all plots, a blushing Cataline
Betrayed by his own cheeks, a misanthrope
In love with all things human and divine,
The very fool of fortune and high hope,
You would deny you knew me. Oh, the days
Of our absurd first manhood, rich in force,
Rich in desire of happiness and praise
Yet impotent in its heroic course,
And all for lack of that one worthless thing,
Knowledge of life and love and suffering!
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 1111111111 0111011111 1101110111 10110101 011111010 0111110001 0101110011 1101111101 1100111101 10010110001 1100010101 0111111101 1011010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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