Analysis of Le Roi Est Mort. Vive Le Roi!
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Why wait for Arthur? He too long has slept.
He shall not hear you--no, nor heed your moan,
More than the wail of those fair Queens that kept
Their watch for him what months in Avalon!
He shall not wake for any mother's son
Nor mother's daughter of them all in tears,
His knights, his ladies. How then for this one,
You the last blossom of our world's lost years?
--Ah, let him sleep. For see how in the wood,
Under the dead oak, green new saplings spring,
How the thorn blossoms, while birds cry aloud
In scorn of grief. And, Lady, by the rood!
There rides a knight, new--armed and questing proud,
Who shouts, ``The king is dead. Long live the King!''
| Scheme | ABACDEDFGHIJIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011111 1111111111 1101111111 111111010 1111110101 1101011101 1111011111 10110110111 1111111001 1001111101 1011011101 0111010101 110111011 1111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 646 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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