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

Beyond her sat a second monster. She
In shape and sense was undisguisedly real,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010101 01111100001 1111011100 11011100001 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 10010000101 01010110101 111100010 0101011111 0101010001 00111110101 0101011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, her