Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE RELIGION OF LOVE
So thou but love me, dear, with thy whole heart
What care I for the rest, for good or ill?
What for the peace of soul good deeds impart,
What for the tears unholy dreams distil?
These cannot make my joy, nor shall they kill.
Thou only perfect peace and virtue art
And holiness for me and strength and will,
So thou but love me with a perfect heart.
I ask thee now no longer to be wise;
No longer to be good, but loving me.
I ask thee nothing now but only this.
Henceforth my Bible, dear, shall be thine eyes,
My beads thy lips, my prayers thy constancy,
My heaven thine arms, eternity thy kiss.
Scheme | ABCBCCBCBDEFDEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 001011 1111111111 1111011111 1101111101 1101010101 1101111111 1100110101 0100110101 1111110011 1111110111 1101111101 1111011101 1111011111 1111111100 11011010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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