Analysis of Mitigations
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
My prison has its pleasures. Every day
At breakfast--time, spare meal of milk and bread,
Sparrows come trooping in familiar way
With head aside beseeching to be fed.
A spider too for me has spun her thread
Across the prison rules, and a brave mouse
Watches in sympathy the warders' tread,
These two my fellow--prisoners in the house.
But about dusk in the rooms opposite
I see lamps lighted, and upon the blind
A shadow passes all the evening through.
It is the gaoler's daughter fair and kind
And full of pity (so I image it)
Till the stars rise, and night begins anew.
Scheme | ABABBCBC XDEDXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101001 1101111101 1011000101 1101010111 0101111101 0101010011 1001000101 11110100001 1011001100 1111000101 011010101 110110101 0111011101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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