Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
WHO WOULD LIVE AGAIN?
Oh who would live again to suffer loss?
Once in my youth I battled with my fate,
Grudging my days to death. I would have won
A place by violence beneath the sun.
I took my pleasures madly as by force,
Even the air of heaven was a prize.
I stood a plunderer at death's very gate,
And all the lands of life I did o'errun
With sack and pillage. Then I scorned to die,
Save as a conqueror. The treasuries
Of love I ransacked; pity, pride and hate.
All that can make hearts beat or brim men's eyes
With living tears I took as robes to wear.
--But see, now time has struck me on the hip.
I cannot hate nor love. My senses are
Struck silent with the silence of my lip.
No courage kindles in my heart to dare,
No strength to do. The world's last phantoms slip
Out of my grasp, and naught is left but pain.
Love, life, vain strength!--Oh who would live again?
Scheme | ABCDDEFCAGHCFIJKJIJLA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1111011101 1011110111 1011111111 0111000101 1111010111 1001110101 110111101 010111111 1101011111 1101000100 111110101 1111111111 1101111111 1111111101 1101111101 1101010111 110101111 1111011101 1111011111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 860 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 665 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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