Analysis of She Shall Not Guess

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



Even if I died no sound should tell it her.
Death babbles, but the calm of her dear eyes
In vain would ask, no tell--tale breath should stir
The lips still treasuring a thought unwise.
How vain my life has been in its disguise,
Left unregarded, her least pensioner,
Yielding to all, unasking even with sighs
The dole of hope not Heaven could quite confer.
--To--day behold me on this page her name
Over my own inscribing, with no prayer,
Nor daring even to kneel in my distress.
What I have written in this candle's flame
Shrinks ere 'tis finished, and the incensed air
Bears but betrays it not. She shall not guess.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10111111110 111011011 0111111111 01110101 1111110101 1101100 101111011 01111101101 1101111101 1011010111 11010110101 111100111 111100011 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 611
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 481
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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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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