Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: LI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
We planted love, and lo it bred a brood
Of lusts and vanities and senseless joys.
We planted love, and you have gathered food
Of every bitter herb which fills and cloys.
Your meat is loud excitement and mad noise,
Your wine the unblest ambition of command
O'er hearts of men, of dotards, idiots, boys.
These are the playthings fitted to your hand,
These are your happiness. You weep no more,
But I must weep. My Heaven has been defiled.
My sin has found me out and smites me sore,
And folly, justified of her own child,
Rules all the empire where love reigned of yore,
Folly red--cheeked but rotten to the core.
Scheme | AABABBCBCDADEDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 11001011101 1111010011 1101010101 10111111001 110110111 1111001111 1111110111 1111110111 010101011 11010011111 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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