This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxv by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
My childhood, then, had passed a mystery
Shrouded by death, my boyhood a shut thing.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedecc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110100 1011111011 0100111011 0101010101 1100010111 1001010101 1101010001 0111011101 0100011111 0111111001 0111110111 1000111100 1011000101 0110110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
my, of, its
