Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
FROM THE FRENCH OF ANVERS
My heart has its secret, my soul its mystery,
A love which is eternal begotten in a day.
The ill is long past healing. Why should I speak to--day?
For none have ears to hear, and, least of all, she.
Alas I shall have lived unseen tho' ever near,
For ever at her side, for ever too alone.
I shall have lived my life unknowing and unknown,
Asking naught, daring naught, receiving naught from her.
And she, whom Heaven made kind and chaste and fair,
Shall go undoubting on, the while upon her way
The murmur of my love shall fill the land,
Till, reading here perchance severe and unaware
These lines so full of her, she shall look up and say
``Who was this woman then?'' and shall not understand.
Scheme | ABCCBDEEFGCHGAH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111 111110111100 0111010010001 0111110111111 11111101111 011111011101 110101110101 111111010001 101101010110 01110110101 1111010101 0101111101 11010101001 111110111101 11110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 713 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 555 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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