Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. August
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ON THE THAMES
The river Thames has many a dear delight
In summer days for souls which know not guile,
Or souls too careless of the vain world's spite
To heed its frowning while the heavens smile.
In boyhood all our pleasure was in toil,
As with bent backs we laboured at the oar;
We loved to spend our strength in the turmoil
Of speed disputed, conquered, conqueror.
But other years brought other joys. Alas!
Where is fair Rosamund, our heart's first queen,
Whose foot so lightly trod with us the grass,
Though burdened with the hundred loves of men,
At Kew, at Skindle's? But no more of this.
We still have joys, and still old Thames is green.
Still on his back we float awhile and press
His hand in hope, and call it happiness.
Scheme | X ABABCXCX DEDXXEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 01011100101 0101111111 1111010111 1111010101 0111010101 111111101 1111101001 1101010100 1101110101 11100110111 1111011101 1101010111 111111111 1111011111 1111110101 1101011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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