Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE HAUNTED HOUSE
How loud the storm blew all that bitter night!
The loosened ivy tapping on the pane
Woke me and woke, again and yet again,
Till I was full awake and sat upright.
I listened to the noises of the night,
And presently I heard, disguised yet plain,
A footstep on the stair which mounted light
Towards me, and my heart outbeat the rain.
I knew that it was you. I knew it even
Before the door, which by design ajar
Waited your coming, had disclosed my fate.
I felt a wind upon my face from heaven.
I felt the presence of a life. My hair
Was touched as by a spirit. Insensate
I drew you to my bosom. Ah, too late!
I clutched the darkness. There was nothing there.
Scheme | ABCDBBCBCEFGHIBGI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 1101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0100110111 011011101 011011101 11111111110 0101110101 1011010111 11010111110 1101010111 11110101 1111110111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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