This is an analysis of Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet Viii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
And so it was that, sitting ever thus
Dumb to all speech of those that knew her woe…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedecc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101110101 1011011101 1100110001 1101001101 0101010110 1111010101 1101010111 1101100111 1111010011 01001100111 1100110001 1101111101 1111101111 01110100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, with
Anaphora
and
