Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Yet so it was. Adrian had hardly set
His lips to those cold lips where death had been,
His eyes those clammy eyelids scarce had wet
With his warm tears and poured his soul between,
Nor yet with eager hands had he undone
That bosom's fastness of its snowy fold,
Ere, lo, on his rapt ear there fell a moan
As of one waking in the night grown cold.
And, even as he held her in his arms,
And gazed into her face by the dim light,
He saw her blue eyes open in alarms,
As wondering who was with her in the night,
And a long shudder pass through all her frame,
And her lips move as half she breathed his name.
Scheme | ABACDEFEGHGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111001101 1111111111 111101111 1111011101 1111011101 111011101 1111111101 1111000111 0101110011 0101011011 1101110001 11001110001 0011011101 0011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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