This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lxxxi that begins with:
TO ONE WHOM HE HAD LOVED TOO LONG
Why do I cling to thee, sad love? Too long... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aababbabacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01111111 1111011111 11011010011 1100110101 11010011101 0101101101 1101110101 11010011101 01001110111 0101010011 1111011101 1101111101 1111010101 1111010101 110100001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; to, my, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines long is repeated).
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lxxxii
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iv: Vita Nova: C
- Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iv: Vita Nova: Ci