Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
PALAZZO PAGANI
This is the house where, twenty years ago,
They spent a Spring and Summer. This shut gate
Would lead you to the terrace, and below
To a rose garden long since desolate.
Here they once lived. How often I have sat
Till it was dusk among the olive trees,
Waiting to hear their coming horse--hoofs grate
Upon the gravel; till the freshening breeze
Bore down a sound of voices. Even yet
A broken echo of their laughter rings
Through the deserted terraces; and see,
While I am speaking, from the parapet
There is a hand put forth, and some one flings
Her very window open overhead.
--How sweet it is, this scent of rosemary!
--These are the last tears I shall ever shed.
Scheme | ABCBDEFCFGHAGHIAI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010 1101110101 1101010111 1111010001 1011011100 1111110111 1111010101 1011110111 01010101001 1101110101 0101011101 1001010001 111101010 1101110111 0101010101 111111110 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 532 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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