Analysis of Jacinths And Jessamines

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet,
All odorous pale flowers from Orient lands,
No vain red roses strew I at thy feet,
Emblems of grief and thee, with reverent hands.
Mine is no madrigal of passionate joy,
Or orison of aught less chaste than tears.
Ruth on thy brow sits fairest. Its annoy
Rends not thy beauty's raiment, nor the years.
In thy shut lips what secrets! Who am I
Should seek a sign at that dread sanctuary?


Scheme ABABCDCEFG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101011 11001101101 1111011111 10110111001 11110011001 11111111 1111110101 11111101 0111110111 1101111100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 427
Words 80
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 338
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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