This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xv by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Thus it began with laughter. But anon
The ox--eyed queen, who had resumed by rote…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcdececbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001010110 0111110111 0100100111 11110010101 11111101011 1101010111 1100011010 0101111100 1011010111 10101110101 1001111101 1011110110 0101010101 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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