Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXXVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
FEAR HAS CAST OUT LOVE
'Tis not that love is less or sorrow more
Than in the days when first these things began.
Even then you doubted, and our hearts were sore
And you rebelled because I was a man.
Even then you fought and wrestled with my plan
Of earthly bliss. What bitter anguish too
When at the hour decreed our passion ran
Out of our keeping and love claimed its due!
'Tis not love's fault we part, or grief's. Alas,
One mightier now compels us with His nod.
The fire of Heaven has touched us, and we pass
From pleasure's chastenings to a fiercer rod;
And fear has cast out love, for flesh is grass
And we are withered with the wrath of God.
Scheme | ABCBCCDCDEFEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 1111111101 1001111101 101110010101 0101011101 10111010111 1101110101 110100110101 11101001111 1111111101 11001011111 010110111011 11110101 0111111111 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 504 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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