Analysis of He Makes An End
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
What shall I tell you, dear, who have told all,
What do, whose wish, whose will is manacled,
What dare, whose duty at your festival
Is but to light the candles round Love's bed?
How can I sing to you uncomforted
By any crumb of kindness Joy lets fall?
Unsexed am I by service, heart and head.
Nay, let me sleep and turn me to the wall.
--Alas there is a day when all joy dies,
Through stress of time and tears' thin nourishment
And that dumb peace of Age which veils the end.
Here am I come, and here I close my eyes,
With what I may of dreams (they naught portend),
Framing your face, the last before Love went.
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Metre | 1111111111 11111111 1111011100 1111010111 1111111 1101110111 111110101 1111011101 0111011111 1111011100 0111111101 1111011111 1111111101 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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