Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO ONE UNFORGOTTEN
You are not false perhaps, as lovers say
Meaning the act,--Alas, that guilt was mine.
Nor, maybe, have you bowed at other shrine
Than the true god's where first you learned to pray.
I know the idols round you. They are clay,
Mere Dagons to the courage half divine
Which bears you scathless still thro' sap and mine
And breach and storm upon your virgin way.
Alas, I know your virtue. But your heart,
How have you treated it? I sometimes see,
When nights are long, a vision chaste and true
Of pale pathetic eyes which gaze on me
In love and grief eternal. Then I start,
Crying aloud, and reach my arms to you.
Scheme | ABAABBAABCDEDCE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111 1111011101 1001011111 1101111101 1011111111 1101011111 111010101 111111101 0101011101 0111110111 1111011011 1111010101 1101011111 0101010111 1001011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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