This is an analysis of Honour Dishonoured by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Honoured I lived e'erwhile with honoured men
In opulent state. My table nightly spread…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbaba cdcdbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1001110001001 01001110101 1101111100 1101110100 1101110111 11001111100 1011111101 11011011111 0101011101 1101110101 1100011101 1111010111 1101010001 1011000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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