Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
I do not love you. To have said this once
Had seemed to both of us a monstrous lie,
An idle boast, love's last extravagance
Or the mere paradox of vanity.
Now it is true and yet more hideously
More strangely monstrous. I, no less than you,
Here own at length the worm which cannot die,
The burden of a pain for ever new.
This is the ``pang of loss,'' the bitterest
Which Hell can give. We are shut out from Heaven
And never more shall look upon Love's face,
Being with those who perish unforgiven.
Never to see Love's face! Ah, pain in pain,
Which we do well to weep and weep again!
Scheme | ABCBDDECEFGHGIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1111111111 1111110101 1101110100 101101100 11110111000 1101011111 1111011101 0101011101 1101110100 11111111110 0101110111 1011110010 1011111101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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