Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ASKING THE FULFILMENT OF HER LOVE
I ask for love who famished am in plenty,
Not scorning the dear manna of your tears
But being vexed with that too froward twenty
Which heads the sum of my rebellious years.
My soul is fallen ``in lust of cucumbers,
Of fish, of melons,'' through its long abstaining.
Unworthy Egypt yet enslaves my fears.
Ah, love, I thirst, but not for heaven's raining.
Why speak to me, alas, of heavenly joys
Who ask for joys of earth these cannot cheat?
What are these clouds, these pillars of fire to me?
The wilderness is long. Youth cannot be
For ever fed on these unnatural toys
And needs must murmur if it have not meat.
Scheme | ABCBDEFDFGHBBGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1001101 11111101010 110110111 1101111110 1101110101 11110111100 1111111010 010101111 11111111010 11110111001 1111111101 111111011011 0100111101 11011101001 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 505 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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