Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
JOY'S TREACHERY
I had a live joy once and pampered her,
For I had brought her from the ``golden East,''
To lie when nights were cold upon my breast
And sit beside me the long days and purr,
Until her whole soul should be lapped in fur,
Deep as her claws; a beautiful sleek beast,
Which I might love.--But, when I deemed it least,
Her topaz eyes were on my stomacher,
Athirst for blood. Thus, for I loathed her since
I learned her guile, one night I had her slain
And thrown upon a dunghill to the flies,
Who bred in her fair limbs a pestilence,
Whereof I sickened.--Thus it ever is:
Dead joys unburied breed us death and pain.
Scheme | ABCDBBCCAEFGHIF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100 1101110100 111101011 1111010111 0101101101 0101111101 1101010011 1111111111 0110111 111111101 1101111101 010101101 1100110100 111011101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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