Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
IN PRAISE OF HIS FATE
When I hear others speak of this and that
In our fools' lives which might have better gone,
Complaining idly of too niggard fate
And wishing still their senseless past undone,
I feel a childish tremor through me run,
Stronger than reason, lest by some far chance
Fate's ear to our sad plaints should yet be won
And these our lives be thrown back on our hands.
I tremble when I think of my past years,
My hopes, my aims, my wishes. All these days
I might have wandered far from Love and thee.
But kind fate held me, heedless of my prayers,
A prisoner to its wise mysterious ways,
And forced me to thy feet--ah fortunate me!
Scheme | ABCADDEDFGHIJHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111 1111011101 01011111101 0101011101 0101110101 1101010111 1011011111 11110111111 011011111101 1101111111 1111110111 1111011101 111111111 010011101001 01111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 504 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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