Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
If I have since done evil in my life,
I was not born for evil. This I know.
My soul was a thing pure from sensual strife.
No vice of the blood foredoomed me to this woe.
I did not love corruption. Beauty, truth,
Justice, compassion, peace with God and man,
These were my laws, the instincts of my youth,
And hold me still, conceal it as I can.
I did not love corruption, nor do love.
I find it ill to hate and ill to grieve.
Nature designed me for a life above
The mere discordant dreams in which I live.
If I now go a beggar on the Earth,
I was a saint of Heaven by right of birth.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110011 1111110111 11101111001 1110111111 1111010101 1001011101 1011010111 0111011111 1111010111 1111110111 1001110101 0101010111 1111010101 11011101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 577 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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