Analysis of Three Pictures Continued
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The first, a woman, nobly limbed and fair,
Standeth at sunset by a famed far sea.
Red are her lips as Love's own kisses were,
Yet speak they never though they smile on me.
An old knight, next, and arméd cap--à--pie,
Watcheth the slaughtered clay that was his heir.
The winding--sheet is not more white than he,
Hath sat since dawn and hath not shed a tear.
The third a tortured bull about to die
In the arena. No proud infidel
E'er laid his dripping spears more scornfully
In Spanish dust; for he too, ere he fell,
Hath slain a man. Ah Christ! That murderous eye
Burneth athirst like the red pit of Hell.
Scheme | ABCBDABADEEEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 11110111 1101111100 1111011111 111101111 101011111 0101111111 1111011101 0101010111 000101110 101110111 0101111111 11011111001 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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