Analysis of St. Valentine's Day
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO-DAY, all day, I rode upon the down,
With hounds and horsemen, a brave company
On this side in its glory lay the sea,
On that the Sussex weald, a sea of brown.
The wind was light, and brightly the sun shone,
And still we gallop'd on from gorse to gorse:
And once, when check'd, a thrush sang, and my horse
Prick'd his quick ears as to a sound unknown.
I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even
Better than all by this, that through my chase
In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven
I seem'd to see and follow still your face.
Your face my quarry was. For it I rode,
My horse a thing of wings, myself a god.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEDFDGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1101001100 1110110101 1101010111 0111010011 0111011111 0111011011 1111110101 11011111110 1011111111 01010101010 1111010111 1111011111 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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