This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: I by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
When is life other than a tragedy,
Whether it is played in tears from the first scene,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbdbdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011010100 10001010011 0101111100 1111111100 1101010111 1101010001 1101001101 1101110101 1001101101 1001010101 1111011001 1001101111 1111010111 10101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
