This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxvi that begins with:
I linger on the threshold of my youth.
If you could see me now as then I was,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcbdbdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011011 0111111111 0111010101 1101110101 1011010100 0110110101 0101110101 0101010111 1101111101 0101111101 10010010011 1100000101 1111011101 1001111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 579
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxix
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