Analysis of The Court Of Penance
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Behold the Court of Penance. Four gaunt walls
Shutting out all things but the upper heaven.
Stone flags for floor, where daily from their stalls
The human cattle in a circle driven
Tread down their pathway to a mire uneven,
Pale--faced, sad--eyed, and mute as funerals.
Woe to the wretch whose weakness unforgiven
Falters a moment in the track or falls!
Yet is there consolation. Overhead
The pigeons build and the loud jackdaws talk,
And once in the wind's eye, like a ship moored,
A sea--gull flew and I was comforted.
Even here the heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
And the free firmament thy handiwork.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 10111101010 1111110111 01010001010 1111101010 1111011100 1101110010 1001000111 111010101 010100111 0100111011 0111011100 101010011101 0011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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