Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND
In my distress Love made me sign a bond,
A cruel bond. 'Twas by necessity
Wrung from a foolish heart, alas, too fond,
Too blindly fond, its error to foresee.
And now my soul's estate, in jeopardy,
Lies to a pledge it never can redeem.
Love's loan was love, one hour of ecstasy,
His penalty eternal loss of him.
--See, I am penniless, the forfeit paid,
And go a beggar forth from thy dear sight,
My pound of more than flesh too strictly weighed
And cut too near the heart. Fair Israelite,
Thy plea was just. Thy right has been confessed.
And yet a work of mercy were twice blessed.
Scheme | AABABBCBDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010111 0101111101 0101110100 1101010111 1101110101 0111010100 1101110101 11111101100 1100010111 1111000101 0101011111 1111111101 011101110 1111111101 0101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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