Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION
Why should I hate you, love, or why despise
For that last proof of tenderness you gave?
The battle is not always to the brave,
Nor life's sublimest wisdom to the wise.
True courage often is in frightened eyes,
And reason in sweet lips that only rave.
There is a weakness stronger than the grave,
And blood poured out has overcome the skies.
--Nay, love, I honour you the more for this,
That you have rent the veil, and ushered in
A fellow soul to your soul's holy place.
And why should either blush that we have been
One day in Eden, in our nakedness?
--'Tis conscience makes us sinners, not our sin.
Scheme | ABCCBBCCBDEFEBE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101010 1111111101 1111110011 010111101 11110101 1101010101 0100111101 1101010101 011111001 111110111 1111010100 0101111101 0111011111 110100101 11011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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