Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED
How the earth burns! Each pebble underfoot
Is as a living thing with power to wound.
The white sand quivers, and the footfall mute
Of the slow camels strikes but gives no sound,
As though they walked on flame, not solid ground.
'Tis noon, and the beasts' shadows even have fled
Back to their feet, and there is fire around
And fire beneath, and overhead the sun.
Pitiful heaven! What is this we view?
Tall trees, a river, pools, where swallows fly,
Thickets of oleander where doves coo,
Shades, deep as midnight, greenness for tired eyes.
Hark, how the light winds in the palm--tops sigh.
Oh this is rest. Oh this is paradise.
Scheme | ABCDCCECFGHGIHJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 001011010 101111001 11010111011 01110011 1011011111 1111111101 1100111011 11110111001 01001010101 1001011111 1101011101 101100111 1111101101 1101100111 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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