Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The Lyons fair! In truth it was a Heaven
For idlers' eyes, a feast of curious things,
Swings, roundabouts, and shows, the Champions Seven,
Dramas of battles and the deaths of kings,
The whole Place d'Armes grown white as if with snow,
With canvas booths arrayed in triple lines,
And jugglers, lions, snakes from Mexico,
Dancers on tight ropes, clowns and columbines.
I went among them all with grave intent,
I, too, to find it may be some delight.
I was a boy and knew not what life meant,
Nor what the pleasures were men seek in it.
Only I knew that mingling with that throng,
I was a stranger a strange world among.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111010 1110111001 1101010010 1011000111 01111111111 1101010101 0100101110 101111010 1101111101 1111111101 1101011111 1101001101 10111100111 1101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
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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