Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO ONE WHOM HE DARED NOT LOVE
As one who, in a desert wandering
Alone and faint beneath a pitiless sky,
And doubting in his heart if he shall bring
His bones back to his kindred or there die,
Finds at his feet a treasure suddenly
Such as would make him for all time a king,
And so forgets his fears and with keen eye
Falls to a--counting each new precious thing:
--So was I when you told me yesterday
The tale of your dear love. Awhile I stood
Astonished and enraptured, and my heart
Began to count its treasures. Now dismay
Steals back my joy, and terror chills my blood,
And I remember only ``We must part.''
Scheme | ABCBCDBCBEFGEHG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 1110010100 01010101001 0100111111 1111110111 1111010100 1111111101 0101110111 1101011101 111111110 0111110111 0100010011 0111110101 1111010111 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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