Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
You know the story of my birth, the name
Which I inherited for good and ill,
The secret of my father's fame and shame,
His tragedy and death on that dark hill.
You know at least what the world knows or knew,
For time has taken half the lookers--on,
As it took him, and leaves his followers few,
And those that loved him scarce or almost none.
To me, his son, there had remained the story,
Told and retold by her who knew it best,
A mystery of love, perhaps of glory,
A heritage to hold and a bequest.
Ah, how it loved him, that sad woman's heart,
What faith was hers and what a martyr's part!
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1101001101 0101110101 1100011111 1111101111 1111010101 11110111001 011111111 11111101010 101101111 01001101110 0100110001 1111111101 111001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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