Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ON HER VANITY
What are these things thou lovest? Vanity.
To see men turn their heads when thou dost pass;
To be the signboard and the looking--glass
Where every idler there may glut his eye;
To hear men speak thy name mysteriously,
Wagging their heads. Is it for this, alas,
That thou hast made a placard of a face
On which the tears of love were hardly dry?
What are these things thou lovest? The applause
Of prostitutes at wit which is not thine;
The sympathy of shop--boys who would weep
Their shilling's worth of woe in any cause,
At any tragedy.--Their tears and mine,
What difference? Oh truly tears are cheap!
Scheme | AABBCABDCEFGHFG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10100 111111100 1111111111 110100101 110010011111 1111111000 1011111101 1111010101 1101110101 111111001 110111111 0100111111 111110101 1101001101 1100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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