Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
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Do you remember how I laughed at you
In the Beaulieu woods, and how I made my peace?
It was your thirtieth birthday, and you threw
Stones like a school--girl at the chestnut trees.
The heavens were light above us and the breeze.
Your Corydon and all the merry crew
Had wandered to a distance, busier bees
Than we, who cared not where the hazels grew.
We were alone at last. I had been teasing
You with the burden of years left behind.
You were too fair to find my wit displeasing,
And I too tender to be less than kind.
Your pebbles struck me. ``Wretch,'' I cried. The word
Entered our hearts that instant like a sword.
Scheme | ABCBDDBDBEFEFGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1101011111 0011011111 1111001011 110111011 01001011001 11010101 11010101001 111111011 10011111110 1101011101 101111111 0111011111 1101111101 10101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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