This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Vii that begins with:
ON HER VANITY
What are these things thou lovest? Vanity.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcabbcdefdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10100 1111110100 0111111111 0001010101 110010011101 01111111000 1011001001 1111010001 1101010101 1111110001 0101111011 0100011111 1101010101 1101001111 1100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vanity is repeated).
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Viii
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: X
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Xii
