Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. July
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
To the high breezes of the Goodwood Down
London has fled, and there awhile forgets
Its weariness of limb on lawns new--mown
And in green shadows all its wars and frets.
Thither we too will bring our calumets
In sign of peace restored o'er fashion slain,
Weaning our souls from folly with small bets
Of gloves and crowns with laughing ringwomen.
The sport is fair, luck fair, and Nature's face
Fairest of all. We neither make nor mar
A fortune here. Yet we were rich with less
Than this week's pleasure conquered from the year.
I would not for a million not have seen
Fred Archer finish upon Guinevere.
Hark! They are off again, a half mile spin,
Four of the dozen backed and bound to win.
Scheme | ABABBXBA XCXXXCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011 1011010101 1100111111 001111101 11111101 01110110101 10101110111 11011101 0111110101 1011110111 0101110111 1111010101 1111010111 11010011 1111010111 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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