Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE MOCKERY OF LIFE
God! What a mockery is this life of ours!
Cast forth in blood and pain from our mother's womb,
Most like an excrement, and weeping showers
Of senseless tears: unreasoning, naked, dumb,
The symbol of all weakness and the sum:
Our very life a sufferance.--Presently,
Grown stronger, we must fight for standing--room
Upon the earth, and the bare liberty
To breathe and move. We crave the right to toil.
We push, we strive, we jostle with the rest.
We learn new courage, stifle our old fears,
Stand with stiff backs, take part in every broil.
It may be that we love, that we are blest.
It may be, for a little space of years,
We conquer fate and half forget our tears.
Scheme | ABCBDDECEFGHFGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011 110100111110 110101110101 11110001010 1101010101 0101110001 1010101100 1101111101 0101001100 1101110111 1111110101 11110101011 11111101001 1111111111 1111010111 11010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 527 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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