This is an analysis of A Convent Wothout God by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

A prison is a convent without God.
Poverty, Chastity, Obedience…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXaba XcXbcX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0100010011 1001000100 0111000101 1101010101 1011011000 1101101101 1111010100 1111010101 1011110100 1001000101 1101110100 1111110101 10110101001 1011010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14