Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. January
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The week at Whinwood next to Christmas week.
Six guns, no more, but all good men and true,
Of the clean--visaged sort, with ruddy cheek
Which knows not care. Light--hearted Montagu
At the cover's end, as down the wind they flew,
Has stopped his score of pheasants, every beak,
Without more thought of Juliet than of you;
And still I hear his loud--mouthed Purdeys speak.
Tybalt and Paris, with a bet on hand,
Have fired at the same woodcock. ``Truce,'' say I,
``To civil jars.'' For look, as by command,
Bunch following bunch, a hundred pheasants fly.
Now battle, murder, death on every side!
Right, left, left, right, we pile up agony,
Till night stops all. Then home in chastened pride,
With aching heads, our slaughter satisfied.
Scheme | ABABBABA CDCDEXEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111101 1111111101 101111101 111111010 1011110111 11111101001 0111110111 011111111 1001010111 1101011111 1101111101 11001010101 11010111001 1111111100 1111110101 1101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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