Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO ONE EXCUSING HIS POVERTY
Ah! love, impute it not to me a sin
That my poor soul thus beggared comes to thee.
My soul a pilgrim was, in search of thine,
And met these accidents by land and sea.
The world was hard, and took its usury,
Its toll for each new night in each new inn;
And every road had robber bands to fee;
And all, even kindness, must be paid in coin.
Behold my scrip is empty, my heart bare.
I give thee nothing who my all would give.
My pilgrimage is finished, and I fare
Bare to my death, unless with thee I live.
Ah! give, love, and forgive that I am poor.
Ah! take me to thy arms and ask no more.
Scheme | ABACAABADEFEGHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101100 1101111101 111111111 1101010111 0111001101 0111011100 1111110111 01001110111 01101011101 0111110111 1111011111 1100110011 1111011111 1110011111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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