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

I fled the booth with feelings as of Cain,
Yet laughing at my own bewilderment.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101110100 11111011001 1111011111 0101010101 1011011101 111101111011 0100110101 0111110001 0110010101 1111011011 1111000101 1101010101 1111011100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, and

Anaphora

the