Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
Thrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learn
In this world or the next, if next there be,
More deep, more full, more worthy our concern
Than that first word of folly taught us? We
Had suddenly grown silent. I could see
Your cheek had lost a little of its hue,
And your lips trembled, and beseechingly
Your blue eyes turned to mine, and well I knew
Your woman's instinct had divined my speech,
The meaning of a word so lightly spoken.
The word was a confession, clear to each,
A pledge as plain and as distinct a token
As that of Peter at his master's knees,
``Thou knowest that I love thee more than these.''
Scheme | ABCBCCDEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1101110111 0111011111 11111101001 1111110111 1100110111 1111010111 0111001 1111110111 110101111 01010111010 0110010111 01110101010 1111011101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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