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

A glorious triumph. On that day of days
When, standing on the summit's utmost edge…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdacaccc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01001011101 1101010111 0111011101 1111010111 1111000111 1111110111 1101110101 11110010101 11100010011 0101010111 10111111101 0100111111 10010111001 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

on, and, my, of