Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The summer I had passed in my own fashion
High in the Alps, a proselyte to toil.
I was released and free, and spent my passion
On the bare rocks as on a fruitful soil.
I had soothed my soul with labour, and its fire
Borne to those naked heights where I unfurled
My flag with new ambitions, high and higher
Even to the last bleak outposts of the world.
My soul had needed courage, and behold!
Here in these battles with the hosts of air
And rock and snow and storm she had grown bold
And proved her temper for the coming war.
This was her gain, the strife she must engage
With physical fear, her childhood's heritage.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101110 10010111 11010101110 1011110101 11111110110 1111011101 11110101010 1010111101 1111010001 1011010111 0101011111 0101010101 1101011101 1100101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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