Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
ASKING FOR HER HEART
Give me thy heart, Juliet, give me thy heart!
I have a need of it, an absolute need,
Because my own heart has thus long been dead.
I live but by thy life. The very smart
Of this new pain which has been born of thee
Is thine, thy own great pleasure's counterpart.
I stand before thee naked. Clothe thou me.
Bring out a robe,--thy truth, thy chastity.
Put rings upon my fingers,--honour's meed.
For thou canst give, nor ever reck the cost,
Being the royal creature that thou art,
The fountain of all honour, whose high boast
Is to be greatest when thou givest most.
| Scheme | AABCADADDAEAFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 1111101111 1101111101 0111111111 1111110101 1111111111 11111110 1101110111 1101111100 110111011 1111110101 1001010111 010111111 111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 579 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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