Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XC
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE PRIDE OF UNBELIEF
When I complained that I had lost my hope
Of life eternal with the eternal God;
When I refused to read my horoscope
In the unchanging stars, or claim abode
With powers and dominations, but, poor clod,
Clung to the earth and grovelled in my tears,
Because I soon must lie beneath the sod
And close the little number of my years,--
Then I was told that pride had barred the way,
And raised this foul rebellion in my head.
Yet, strange rebellion! I, but yesterday,
Was God's own son in His own likeness bred.
And thrice strange pride! who thus am cast away
And go forth lost and disinherited.
Scheme | ABCBDCECFGHGHGC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111 1101111111 11010100101 110111110 0001011101 11001111 110101011 0111110101 0101010111 1111111101 0111010011 110101110 1111011101 0111111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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