Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. December
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
AWAY TO EGYPT
Enough, enough! This winter is too rude,
Too dark of countenance, of tooth too keen.
Nature finds rebels now in flesh and blood,
And hearts grow sick for change and eyes for green.
Let us away! What profits it that men
Are wise as gods, if winter holds its sway,
If blood be chilled, and numbness clasp the brain?
Frost is too stubborn. Let us then away!
Away to Egypt! There we may forget
All but the presence of the blessed sun.
There in our tents well--housed, sublimely set
Under a pyramid, with horse and gun,
We may make terms with Nature and, awhile,
Put as it were our souls to grass, and run
Barefooted and barehearted in the smile
Of that long summer which still girds the Nile.
Scheme | X XAXAXBXB CDCDEDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 0101110111 1111001111 1011010101 0111110111 1101110111 1111110111 1111010101 1111011101 0111011101 110101011 101011111 1001001101 1111110001 11101011101 101001 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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