This is an analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. April by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

TROUT--FISHING
This morning, through my window, half awake,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd efefgfgg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
  • Metre: 110 0101110101 1101111100 00110011101 0100110100 1101111011 1111000101 0111111111 1101000111 1111011101 1110010101 1011010111 0101010101 1111110101 1101010111 0101111101 11011000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

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