Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SUBLIME
To stand upon a windy pinnacle,
Beneath the infinite blue of the blue noon,
And underfoot a valley terrible
As that dim gulf, where sense and being swoon
When the soul parts; a giant valley strewn
With giant rocks; asleep, and vast, and still,
And far away. The torrent, which has hewn
His pathway through the entrails of the hill,
Now crawls along the bottom and anon
Lifts up his voice, a muffled tremulous roar,
Borne on the wind an instant, and then gone
Back to the caverns of the middle air;
A voice as of a nation overthrown
With beat of drums, when hosts have marched to war.
Scheme | ABCBCCDCDCEFGHE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 001 1101010100 01010011011 001010100 1111110101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010111 111010101 110101001 11110101001 1101110011 1101010101 011101001 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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