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

So he departed angry and in haste,
A bitter wanderer on the ways of life:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 01010010101 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 1111011111 0011010101 1111010101 1111111111 0101110101 1001111101 1001011111 1101010011 1101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

he, his

Anaphora

and