Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: LXXXV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
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These flowers shall be my offering, living flowers
Which here shall die with you in sacrifice,
Flowers from the empty fields which once were yours
And now are mine. No gold, nor myrrh, nor spice,
Nor any dead man's offering may suffice.
I love not flowers: but thus to deck a grave
Which has no need of things of greater price.
Life is the only tribute death would have.
--Ah, thou art dead. Mine is this fair domain
With all its living beauty and brave shows
Of lawn, and lake, and garden; mine the increase
Of the year's harvest, the slow growth of trees,
And that fair natural wealth we loved in vain,
Flowers, which shall never more adorn my house.
Scheme | ABCDCCECFGHIJGK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1101111001010 111111010 10101011101 0111111111 11011100101 11110111101 1111111101 1101010111 1111111101 1111010011 11010101001 1011001111 01110011101 10111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 524 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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