Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
Again Love left you. With appealing eyes
You watched him go, and lips apart to speak.
He left you, and once more the sun did rise
And the sun set, and week trod close on week
And month on month, till you had reached the goal
Of forty years, and life's full waters grew
To bitterness and flooded all your soul,
Making you loathe old things and pine for new.
And you into the wilderness had fled,
And in your desolation loud did cry,
``Oh for a hand to turn these stones to bread!''
Then in your ear Love whispered scornfully,
``Thou too, poor fool, thou, even thou,'' he said,
``Shalt taste thy little honey ere thou die.''
Scheme | ABCBCDEDEFGFDFG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 0111110101 1111010111 1110110111 0011011111 0111111101 1101011101 1100010111 1011110111 0101010011 001010111 1101111111 10111101 1111110111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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