Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXXIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Such was the legend. I had read it through
Twice ere I thought of thinking what it meant.
And as I turned with a sigh because I knew
That I alone perhaps of all who went
Homewards that night should bid good--night to none,
From a side door thrust open on the street
And calling as she passed in petulant tone
To one within who seemed to rouse her heat,
``Ah, mauvais plaisant!'' ere she slammed it to,
Out stepped my little woman of the Fair.
Her face was altered, but its form and hue,
If I had doubted in the moonlight there,
Was marked for me by that unaltered sign,
The little scar, its beauty's underline.
Scheme | ABABCDEDAFAFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1111110111 01111010111 1101011111 111111111 1011110101 01011101001 1101111101 11111111 1111010101 0111011101 111100011 1111110101 01011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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