Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet III
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Matron was she of a great Roman house,
And wed in youth to one she might not love;
Her birth, her fortune, her name luminous,
Such as all noblest virtues most behove.
How dare she trifle with ignoble things,
Or yield her fair fame to a stranger's care,
Or let her passionate desire take wings,
Or be of those unchastely debonnaire?
Yet with him she was well, and far from him
A bird shaft--stricken which no more may fly.
She deemed his smile as of the seraphim,
And in his frown she was one like to die.
For his dear sake 'twixt niggard hopes and fears
She lived in death for two long weary years.
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Metre | 1011101101 0101111111 0101001100 111101011 1111010101 1101110101 11010001011 111111 1111110111 0111011111 11111101 0011111111 1111110101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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