This is an analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet Ix by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Thus Adrian learned it. And behold, his heart,
Which he had hardened against all dismay,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedecc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11001010101 1111001101 1111001101 1101110101 1001110001 1011010011 00110010111 1101110101 10111101001 01010111001 1111100111 1111000101 1111010101 0111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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