Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Who has not wept with Manon? Of all tales
That thrill youth's fancy or to tears or mirth
None other is there where such grief prevails,
Such passionate pity for the loves of Earth.
Who has not wept with Manon in her sin,
Wept in her punishment? What angry heart
Has been unmoved in youth to see her win
With those sad archers to the inhuman cart?
Who has not followed her beyond the seas,
And sold his life for her, and bowed his pride,
And sinned all sins to buy her back to ease,
And died all deaths to venge her when she died?
And I, blest boy, who each new happy night
When all was done still lived in her delight!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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