Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CXIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO ONE WITH HIS SONNETS
This is the book. For evil and for good,
What my life was in it is written plain.
These are no dreams, but things of flesh and blood,
The past that lived and shall not live again.
This is the book. I dare not bid you read.
Too much of my poor soul you would unlock.
Your own soul, if it tender were, might bleed.
I could not bear that you should only mock.
My life lies here. And yet in vain, dear heart,
The tale is told. One page it yearns to see,
One play where one best actor should find part.
But that, alas for love! shall never be.
Yet, if a sign you seek between these lines,
One hidden lies for you, a sign of signs.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHGIJIJKK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110 1101110011 1111011101 1111111101 0111011101 1101111111 1111111101 1111110011 1111111101 1111010111 0111111111 1111110111 1101111101 1101110111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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