Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: IX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ON HER WAYWARDNESS
This is rank slavery. It better were
To till the thankless earth with sweat of brow,
Following dull oxen 'neath a goad of care
To a boor's grave agape behind the plough.
It better were to linger in some slow
Unnatural case, the sport of flood or fire,
To be undone by some inhuman vow
And robbed in youth of youth and its desire.
It better were to perish than thus live
Thy pensioner and bondsman, day by day
Doing fool's service thus for love of thee.
How shall I save thee if thou wilt not grieve
Even for shames like these? How shall I slay
The foes thou lovest, thou, their enemy?
Scheme | ABCDCEBCBFGHIGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101 1111001100 1101011111 10011010111 1011010101 1100110011 010010111110 1101110101 01011101010 1100110111 110001111 1011011111 1111111111 1011111111 011111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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