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

I had stopped to read a handbill of the play,
Caught by the lettering. Thus it was I read,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXbabXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11101011001 11010010111 1100110100 01000010111 0101111101 10010101110 0011011101 101111101 1001010111 010010101010 01010100101 100110101000 1001001111 1111010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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