Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
Yet we shall live without love, as some live
Without their limbs, their senses, maimed or deaf.
We even shall forget love, and shall thrive
And prosper and grow fat upon our grief.
You are consoled already more than half,
And wear your sorrow lightly. I will boast
No longer the refusal of relief
Than as a decent mourner of hopes crossed.
We yet shall laugh, and laughter is more loud
When following tears. The men who drive a hearse
Are not the least lighthearted of the crowd.
See, we have made love's epitaph in verse
And fairly buried him. God's ways are best.
Then home to pleasure and the funeral feast.
Scheme | ABCBDEFDGHIHIJK |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1111011111 0111110111 1101011011 01001101101 1101010111 0111010111 1100010101 1101010111 1111010111 11001011101 110110101 111111001 0101011111 11110001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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