Analysis of Friendship’s Black And White
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Romance is writ for me with many names
Of fair loved faces, each page a design
Blazoned and tinctured, this with saffron flames
Enshrining fancy, that with opaline
Rays of mad hopes, half sunlight, half moonshine,
This last with the sole gold of passionate blames
Enjoyed and harvested and made divine
By Love's long memory far outlasting Fame's.
--Leave it untouched, the rose--sweet manuscript.
Youth lies asleep in it, its spellbound knight.
Turn not the leaves lest he should wake dismayed.
This page alone stands open, unequipped
Of any hue save friendship's black and white,
Named with one name that needs not be afraid.
Scheme | ABACBABADEFDEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101 1111011001 10111101 1101110 11111111 11101111001 0101000101 1111001101 110101110 110101111 1101111101 11011101 110111101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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