Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
YOUTH
Youth, ageless youth, the old gods' attribute!
--To inherit cheeks a--tingle with such blood
As wood nymphs blushed, who to the first--blown flute
Went out in endless dancing through the wood.
To live, and taste of that immortal food
After the wild day's waste prepared for us
By deathless hands, and straightway be renewed,
Like the god's entrails upon Caucasus.
To rise at dawn with eye and brain and sense
Clear as the pale green edge where dawn began,
While each bold thought full shapen should arise,
Cutting the horizon of experience,
Sharp as an obelisk.--Ah, wretched Man!
'Tis little wonder that the gods are wise.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEFGHIJHI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 110101110 10101010111 1111110111 1101010101 1101110101 1001110111 11101101 1011001100 1111110101 1101111101 111111101 10001010100 11111101 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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