Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
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When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled,
'Twas with a worthy offering. In my hand
My young life's book I held, a volume sealed,
Which none but you, I deemed, might understand.
And you I did entreat to loose the band
And read therein your own soul's destiny.
But, Tarquin--like, you turned from my demand,
Too proudly fair to find your fate in me.
When now I come, alas, what hands have turned
Those virgin pages! Some are torn away,
And some defaced, and some with passion burned,
And some besmeared with life's least holy clay.
Say, shall I offer you these pages wet
With blood and tears? And will your sorrow read
What your joy heeded not?--Unopened yet
One page remains. It still may hold a fate,
A counsel for the day of utter need.
Nay, speak, sad heart, speak quick. The hour is late.
Age threatens us. The Gaul is at the gate.
Scheme | ABBBBBCBCBDBDBBBBBBB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11 1101111111 11010100011 1111110101 111111101 011111101 0101111100 111111101 1101111101 1111011111 1101011101 0101011101 011111101 1111011101 1101011101 1111010101 1101111101 0101011101 11111101011 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 656 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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