Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. June
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A DAY AT HAMPTON COURT
It is our custom, once in every year,
Mine and two others', when the chestnut trees
Are white at Bushey, Ascot being near,
To drive to Hampton Court, and there, at ease
In that most fair of English palaces,
Spend a long summer's day. What better cheer
Than the old ``Greyhound's,'' seek it where you please?
And where a royal garden statelier?
The morning goes in tennis, a four set,
With George the marker. 'Tis a game for gods,
Full of return and volley at the net,
And laughter and mirth--making episodes
Not wholly classic. But the afternoon
Finds us punt--fishing idly with our rods,
Nodding and half in dreams, till all too soon
Darkness and dinner drive us back to town.
Scheme | X ABABXABA CDCXEDEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 111010101001 101101011 111101101 1111010111 0111110100 1011011101 101111111 01010101 0101010011 1101010111 1101010101 010011010 110101001 11110101101 1001011111 1001011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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