Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The thought of night consoled him. To his vision
Natalia was dead only in false death,
The sleeping treason of some false misprision,
Some silent mystery of shortened breath,
Not dead in truth for ever and to him,
Or to that other life his dream foretold:--
Her murderers these. And in his heart the whim
Rose he should draw her from her cincture cold,
And set his lips upon her lips once more,
And free her spirit thus from its dull trance,
And all should be between them as before,
Only more dear for her deliverance.
And darkly there he smiled as, their work done,
The mourners left him with their dead alone.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGAH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111110 0101110011 01010111010 1101001101 1101110011 1111011101 01001001101 111101011 0111010111 0101011111 0111011101 1011100100 0101111111 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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