Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
WRITTEN IN DISTRESS
We sometimes sit in darkness. I long while
Have sat there, in a shadow as of death.
My friends and comforters no longer smile,
And they who grudge me wrongfully my breath
Are strong and many. I am bowed beneath
A weight of trouble and unjust reproach
From many fools and friends of little faith.
The world is little worth, yet troubles much.
But I am comforted in this, that I,
Although my face is darkened to men's eyes
And all my life eclipsed with angry wars,
Now see things hidden; and I seem to spy
New worlds above my heaven. Night is wise
And joy a sun which never guessed the stars.
Scheme | ABCBCDEFGHIJHIK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10001 1011010111 111001111 1101001101 0111110011 1101011101 0111000101 1101011101 0111011101 1111000111 111110111 0111011101 1111001111 1101110111 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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