Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. I
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO ONE IN A HIGH POSITION
To you, a poet, glorious, heaven--born,
One who is not a poet but a son
Of the earth earthy, sick and travel--worn
And weary with a race already run,
A battle lost e'er yet his day is done,
Comes with this tribute, shattered banners torn
From a defeat. You reign in Macedon,
My Alexander, as at earlier morn
You reigned upon Parnassus, hero, king.
I reign no more, not even in those hearts
For which these songs were made, and if I sing
'Tis with a harsh and melancholy note
At which my own heart like an echo starts.
Yet sometimes I can deem you listening,
And then all else is instantly forgot.
Scheme | ABABAABABCDCEDCF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001010 11010100101 1111010101 1011010101 0101010101 01011011111 1111010101 10011101 1010111001 110110101 1111110011 1111010111 110101001 1111111101 1011111100 0111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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