Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Anon, ere yet his pleasure was aware
Of other presence with him in that place,
A growing murmur in the jubilant air,
With hum of voices gathering apace,
And laughter interchanged, and tones well known,
And steps approaching him familiar--wise,
And names that seemed an echo of his own,
Broke on his musing. Turning in surprise
He saw around him a gay company,
Faces of kinsmen or of friends as near,
But dead or changed or wed: all now in joy,
Such as they showed him once in days more dear
Ere yet his manhood had been touched with pain,
Stood forth to greet him to their hearts again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 1101011011 01010001001 1111010001 01010111 0101010101 0111110111 1111010001 1101101100 101111111 1111111101 1111110111 111111111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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