Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A YEAR AGO
A year ago I too was proud of May,
I too delighted in the blackbird's song.
When the sun shone my soul made holiday.
When the rain fell I felt it as a wrong.
Then for me too the world was fresh and young.
Oh what a miracle each bluebell was!
How my heart leaped in union with my tongue,
When first I lit upon a stag's horn moss!
--A year ago! Alas, one Summer's fire,
One autumn's chill, one Winter's discontent,
And now one Spring of joy and hope deferred
Have brought me to this pass of undesire
That I behold May's veil of beauty rent
And stand unmoved by sun and flower and bird.
Scheme | ABCBCDEDFGHIGHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101 0101111111 110100011 101111110 1011111101 1111011101 110100111 1111010111 1111010111 01010111010 1101110001 0111110101 11111111 1101111101 01011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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