Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A DISAPPOINTMENT
Spring, of a sudden, came to life one day.
Ere this, the Winter had been cold and chill.
That morning first the Summer air did fill
The world, making bleak March seem almost May.
The daffodils were blooming golden gay;
The birch trees budded purple on the hill;
The rose, that clambered up the window--sill,
Put forth a crimson shoot. All yesterday
The winds about the casement chilly blew,
But now the breeze that played before the door
So caught the dead leaves that I thought there flew
Brown butterflies up from the grassy floor.
--But someone said you came not. Ah, too true!
And I, I thought that Winter reigned once more.
Scheme | ABCCBBCCBDEDEDE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0010 1101011111 1101011101 1101010111 011011111 010010101 011110101 0111010101 110101110 010101101 1101110101 1101111111 110110101 111111111 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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