Analysis of Lilac And Gold And Green

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



Lilac and gold and green!
Those are the colours I love the best,
Spring's own raiment untouched and clean,
When the world is awake and yet hardly dressed,
And the stranger sun, her bridegroom shy,
Looks at her bosom and wonders why
She is so beautiful, he so blest.

Lilac and green and gold!
Those were the colours you wore to--day,
Robed you were in them fold on fold,
Clothed in the light of your love's delay.
And I held you thus in my arms, once only,
And wondered still, as you left me lonely,
How the world's beauty was changed to grey.

Lilac and gold and green!
I would die for the truth of those colours true!
Lilac for loyalty, gold for my queen,
And green the faith of my love for you.
Here is a posy of all the three.
My heart is with it. So think of me,
And our weeping skies shall once more be blue.


Scheme Ababccb dedeffe Agagffg
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 11011101 1110101 10110101101 00101011 110100101 111100111 10101 10011111 11001111 100111101 01111011110 0101111110 101101111 10101 1111011111 111001111 010111111 11011101 111111111 01010111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 800
Words 162
Sentences 12
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 207
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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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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