The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Xviii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Xviii that begins with:

HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LOVE IS DEAD
My love is dead, dead and in spite of me,--... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccXbaabdXaeadXaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110101 1101110101 1111111111 0111010101 1111010100 1001010101 1011110001 1111110001 1101000000 11001110101 0101011101 1101110001 1111010100 1101101101 11011100101 01101001110 1101111011 1001100101 1011000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; dead, and are repeated.

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