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

The booths were shut. The Fair was at an end,
And the crowd gone with multitudinous feet…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbXbXcdcddd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101011111 10110100001 10011100101 1111101001 0111010001 11010101111 1101110011 1111110101 1101010011 0001011101 0101010101 1101101111 01010001001 0111001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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