This is an analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxxiv by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
She saw me in an instant, and stopped short
With a sudden change of look from fierce to gay.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXaXacdcdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1110110111 00101010101 0111010111 11110111001 11111110110 1100111111 1011011111 10101011111 1101000111 1111011111 11111100101 1101010001 1101010011 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
