This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xvii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
I touched that knee. She did not show surprise,
And the earth had not opened at our feet.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111101101 1011110111 1011010101 1001000111 1111110011 11010001010 11011010111 01010101010 1011010111 1101010101 0111110101 1101110101 10001011101 1111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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