Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
SONNET IN ASSONANCE
A thousand bluebells blossom in the wood,
Shut in a tangled brake of briar roses,
And guarded well from every wanton foot,
A treasure by no eye of man beholden,
No eye but mine. No other tongue hath spoken
Out to the joyless world what hidden joys
Lie there untasted, mines of wealth unnoted,
While a starved world without lives blank and void.
--Ah, couldst thou know, poor wretch, what I have known,
See what I saw upon that bank enshrinèd,
Soft pity had not wholly left thy soul
And tears had dimmed thy hard eyes uninvited.
Eyes that are cruel--bright with hunger's brightness,
Hunger for beauty, solitude, and peace.
There hadst thou found a beauty and a silence,
Such as nor tongue can tell nor fancy dream.
Scheme | ABACDDABEFGHIAAAJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001 010110001 10010111010 01011100101 01011111010 11111101110 110111101 1111111 1011011101 1111111111 1111011111 1101110111 0111111010 1111011110 101101001 11110100010 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 577 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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