Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXIX

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



He bore her to his home 'twixt life and death,
By mute connivance of the slumbering streets,
Bore her redeemed to a new world of breath
And peace divine, belike the Paraclete's.
There lay she in his hands for many days
Speechless, unasking,--only in her soul
The wonder grew at love's mysterious ways
Which had outwitted grief and proved her fool.
Ay, fool in sooth, unblest by her own will,
Yet now by chiding of love's guidance blest,
Who, sparing all, of all now found her fill,
And lost to love was now of love the guest.
Dreaming she lay, with visions in her eyes
Of a new world where women all were wise.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101111101 11010101001 1001101111 0101101 1110111101 10110001 01011101001 111010101 110111011 1111011101 1101111101 0111111101 1011110001 1011110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 117
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 474
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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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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