Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS
Reading these lines, this record of lost days
Where I am not, and yet where love has been,
This tale of passions consecrate to men
Other than me, unwitting of my ways,
I seem to hear some pagan chaunt of praise
Hymned to an idol shrine in gardens green,
Some wild soft worship of a god obscene,
Some idle homage to an idol face.
I shut my ears, yet hear it still. My eyes
See not, yet see the unchaste the unlawful fire;
I scent the odour of the sacrifice,
And feel the victim's shriek. Then in my ire
I rise up, as on Horeb, and I cry,
``There is none other god, but only I!''
Scheme | ABCDBBEEFGHIJKK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101010 1011101111 1111011111 111101011 1011010111 1111110111 1111010101 1111010101 1101011101 1111111111 111101001010 11011010 0101011011 111111011 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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