Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
A ``woman with a past.'' What happier omen
Could heart desire for mistress or for friend?
Phoenix of friends, and most divine of women,
Skilled in all fence to venture or defend
And with love's science at your fingers' end,
No tears to vex, no ignorance to bore,
A fancy ripe, the zest which sorrows lend!--
I would to God we had not met before!
--I would to God! and yet to God I would
That we had never met. To see you thus
Is grief and wounds and poison to my blood.
Oh, this is sacrilege and foul abuse.
You were a thing for honour not vile use,
Not for the mad world's wicked sinks and stews.
Scheme | ABCBCCDCDEFGHHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 01101110010 11010110111 10110101110 1011110101 0111011101 1111110011 0101011101 1111111101 1111011111 1111011111 1101010111 1111000101 100111111 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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