Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXXII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
EXHORTING HER TO PATIENCE
Why do we fret at the inconstancy
Of our frail hearts, which cannot always love?
Time rushes onward, and we mortals move
Like waifs upon a river, neither free
To halt nor hurry. Sweet, if destiny
Throws us together for an hour, a day,
In the back--water of this quiet bay,
Let us rejoice. Before us lies the sea,
Where we must all be lost in spite of love.
We dare not stop to question. Happiness
Lies in our hand unsought, a treasure trove.
Time has short patience of man's vain distress;
And fate grows angry at too long delay;
And floods rise fast, and we are swept away.
Scheme | ABCDBBEEBCFGHEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0100110 1111100100 1101111011 1101001101 1101010101 1111011100 11010111001 0011011101 1101011101 1111110111 1111110100 1010110101 1111011101 0111011101 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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