Analysis of Twenty Days
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Twenty days are barely gone,
I was merry all the day.
Folly was my butt of scorn.
Now the fool myself I play.
Wit and learning ruled my head,
Logic and economy.
All the books I ever read
Taught me only vanity.
Most of all it moved my mirth
Womankind the world should rule.
Man, the lord of all the Earth!
He, forsooth, a woman's tool!
Cherry lip and glancing eye!
What were rosy cheeks to me?
Beauty's truth was but a lie--
Witness tomes of history!
Twenty days had barely run.
Twenty years they well might be.
All my wisdom was undone,
Reason bade good--night to me.
Her hair was of the red red gold,
Her blue eyes looked me through and through.
She was twenty--three years old,
I was twenty years and two.
Fortune, fame, I freely give,
Honour's self, if so she please,
Sweetly in her smile to live
Other twenty days like these.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FCFC GCGC HIHI XJXJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 1110101 1011111 101111 1010111 1000100 1011101 1110100 1111111 10111 1011101 110101 1010101 1010111 111101 1011100 1011101 1011111 1110101 1011111 01110111 01111101 1110111 1110101 1011101 111111 1000111 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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