The Grief Of Love by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Grief Of Love that begins with:

Love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief,
Sick with the thought of thy eyes and lips and bosom.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX dXee afdc gbdf XgXh dihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111011011 100101111110 1010111101101 11111101111110 1111011110101 11111000101 11111100110101 1110011111101 1111011001011 1101111101011 1101011101101 1011101111111 1111110010101 111110111010 1111111101101 0101011011110010 111111111110 1111111101110 11111111101 111101101111110 111111110101 10111110010110 1111111010101 1001011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, sick, and, thee, my, as, why, thou, didst, me, love, never, thine are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, why are repeated.

    The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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