Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XXI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN
From this day forth I lead another life,
Another life! A life without a tear!
To--day has ended the unequal strife;
My service and my sorrow finish here.
See, my soul cuts her cable of belief
And sails towards the ocean. She shall steer
Sublime henceforth o'er accidents of grief.
Her storm has rolled to a new Hemisphere.
I have loved too much, too loyally, too long.
To--day I am a pirate of the sea.
Let others suffer. I have suffered wrong.
Let others love, and love as tenderly.
Oh, Manon, there are women yet unborn
Shall rue thy frailty, else am I forsworn.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEFGHGHII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101110 1111110101 0101010101 1111000101 1100110101 1111010101 0101010111 01111010011 011110110 11111110011 1111010101 1101011101 1101011100 1011110111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 460 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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