Analysis of A Woman’s Sonnets: V
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Whate'er the cost to me, with this farewell,
I shall not see thee, speak to thee again.
If some on Earth must feel the pangs of Hell,
Mine only be it who have earned my pain.
No matter if my life be blank and dead,
Bankrupt of pleasure: it is better so
Than risk dishonour on a once loved head,
Than link all loved ones with my own sole woe.
I have no claim to bring grief's shade on these,
To mix their pure life's waters with my wine,
To vex the dead, dear dead, in their new peace
With knowledge of my sin and great decline.
For these I leave thee, and, though life be rent
With the rude fight, think not I shall relent.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111111 1111111101 1111110111 1101111111 1101111101 1011011101 11110111 1111111111 1111111111 1111110111 1101110111 1101110101 1111101111 1011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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