This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Viii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

It was a booth no larger than the rest,
No loftier fashioned and no more sublime,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcXaXadd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110101 11001011101 1101110101 0101010101 1011010101 0101001111 1111011000 1101000101 1111001101 011101011 1001010101 0111011101 0101010111 10001010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

no

Anaphora

and