This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: V by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
I had been an hour at Lyons. My breath comes
Fast when I think of it. An hour, no more,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababababXcXcdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 110110110111 11110011011 1111110001 0101010101 1111011001 0101001101 1101010111 1110010011 0111110101 0111010111 110010111101 1111000101 1111110101 0101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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