Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Oh, miracle of love! That death, which seems
So hard a master when he holds his prize,
Whom no cajoleries, nor stratagems
Of beauty's power, nor wisdom's sophistries,
E'er turned aside from his appointed way,
But falcon--like, who with relentless foot
And pinions spread above his captured prey,
Holds his high way in heaven absolute,
Nor heeds our questionings: that this same death
Should have grown soft and yielded to love's tears,
And drawn his talons from their fleshly sheath,
And spared awhile his harvest of the years!
Oh, miracle in sooth renowned above
All other wonders of miraculous love!
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Metre | 1100111111 1101011111 1111100 1110111 10101110101 1101110101 011011101 111101010 11101001111 1111010111 011101111 0101110101 1100010101 11010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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