Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LOVE IS DEAD
My love is dead, dead and in spite of me,--
Dead while I lived,--while yet my blood was rife
With hope and pleasure and the pride of life.
For my love ended unexpectedly
During the Winter, stricken like a tree
By a night's cold, and frozen to the blood,
Whose leaves fell off and never were renewed
By any promise of the years to be.
And, when the Spring came, and the birds, to mate
Among its branches, lo! they found it bare,
Though all around was Summer in the wood.
Yet they took heart awhile, incredulous
That such a tree should be for ever dead.
``'Tis early yet,'' they cried. ``The Spring is late.
It shall still be as in the days that were.''
But Summer came and went while the tree stood
Bare in the sun like a deserted house.
--Then the birds suddenly despaired and fled.
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Metre | 10111111 1111100111 1111111111 1101000111 111100100 1001010101 1011010101 1111010001 1101010111 0101100111 0111011111 1101110001 1111010100 1101111101 1101111111 1111100110 1101011011 1001100101 1011000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 625 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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