Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
Your youth flowed on, a river chaste and fair,
Till thirty years were written to your name.
A wife, a mother, these the titles were
Which conquered for you the world's fairest fame.
In all things you were wise but in this one,
That of your wisdom you yourself did doubt.
Youth spent like age, no joy beneath the sun.
Your glass of beauty vainly running out.
Then suddenly again, ere well you knew,
Love looked upon you tenderly, yet sad:
``Are these wise follies, then, enough for you?''
He said;--``Love's wisdom were itself less mad.''
And you: ``What wouldst thou of me?'' ``My bare due,
In token of what joys may yet be had.''
Scheme | ABCDCEFEFGHGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1111010101 1101010111 0101010100 1101101101 0111011011 1111010111 1111110101 1111010101 1100011111 1101110011 1111010111 1111000111 0111111111 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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