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

Nor were the rest astonished. Even he,
Natalia's lord, in all complacent grace…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001010101 1001010101 1101000111 1100010101 1101111001 1111010011 00110011111 1011011101 01011110110 1101110100 10111111010 0101000101 1101010101 0101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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