Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN
Love, in thy youth, a stranger, knelt to thee,
With cheeks all red and golden locks all curled,
And cried, ``Sweet child, if thou wilt worship me,
Thou shalt possess the kingdoms of the world.''
But you looked down and said, ``I know you not,
Nor want I other kingdom than my soul.''
Till Love in shame, convicted of his plot,
Left you and turned him to some other goal.
And this discomfiture which you had seen
Long served you for your homily and boast,
While, of your beauty and yourself the queen,
You lived a monument of vain love crossed,
With scarce a thought of that which might have been
To scare you with the ghost of pleasures lost.
Scheme | ABCBCDEDEFGFHIH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0110110 1011010111 1111010111 0111111101 1101010101 1111011111 1111010111 1101010111 1101111101 0111111 1111110001 1111000101 1101001111 1101111111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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