Analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XXX

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Thus was Natalia loved and lost and won.
Some say that Adrian, having gained the goal
Of his long hopes, and being of those who run
Too lightly for their constancy of soul,
Or finding maybe that in spite of fate
She he had saved from death was ill at ease,
And halted still in doubt 'twixt this and that,
Grudging her frightened soul its ecstasies,
At a high feast in presence of her kin
Gave back Natalia to her husband's care:
A fair resolve, mayhap, and lesser sin,
If that sin be which love hath made so fair.
Yet do I doubt me all so blindly ended,
Since both from Adam were and Eve descended.


Scheme ABABCDEDFGFGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 11110010101 11110101111 1101110011 1101010111 1111111111 0101011101 10010111 1011010101 1101010101 010110101 1111111111 11111111010 11110001010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 593
Words 118
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 467
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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