This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxviii that begins with:
The summer I had passed in my own fashion
High in the Alps, a proselyte to toil.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedeff
- 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: 01011101110 1001010001 11011111110 1011110101 111110111010 1011011101 11010101110 10001111001 1111010101 1011000101 1111111111 1101010101 0101011101 01001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxxi
- Analysis of In The Night
- Analysis of A Woman’s Sonnets: Vi
