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
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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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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