Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: LXXXIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
IN ANNIVERSARIO MORTIS
If I can bring no tribute of fresh tears
To mingle with the dust which covers thee;
If in this latest dawn of evil years
My rebel eyes withhold their sympathy;
If of a truth my thoughts so barren be
Of their old griefs, so numb to tenderness
That they nor hear nor taste nor feel nor see
The sweetness of thy presence in this place;
If I now drowse,--'tis that the flesh is weak
More than the spirit. See, by thy dear bed
Once more I kneel in sorrow and in love.
See, I still watch by thee if thou shouldst move,
If thou shouldst raise thy hand or turn thy head,
Or speak my name. And yet thou dost not speak.
Scheme | ABCDCCECFGHIJHG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0110 1111110111 1101011101 1011011101 1101011100 1101111101 1111111100 1111111111 0101110011 1111110111 1101011111 1111010001 1111111111 1111111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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