Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXXIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
REMINDING HER OF A PROMISE
Oh, Juliet, we have quarrelled with our fate,
And fate has struck us. Wherefore do we cry?
We prayed for liberty, and now too late
Find liberty is this, to say ``good--bye.''
The Winter which we loved not has gone by,
And Spring is come. The gardens, which were bare
When we first wandered through them, you and I,
The prisoners of our own vain wishes, are
Now full of golden flowers. The very lane
Down to the sea is green. The cactus hedge
We saw cut down has sprouted new again,
And swallows have their nests on the cliff's edge
Where we so often sat and dared complain
Because our joy was new, and called it pain.
Scheme | ABCBCCDCEFGHGFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01001010 1101111101 011111111 1111000111 1100111111 0101111111 0111010101 1111011101 010011011101 11110100101 1101110101 1111110101 0101111011 1111010101 01101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 8 |
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) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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