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

UNDER THE SPEAKER'S GALLERY
In all the comedy of human things…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abXbbbbb cacadadd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
  • Metre: 10010100 0101000101 1011011111 1001111000 0100010111 01001111111 1101001100 1001001111 1111011101 1011010101 1001100101 1111010101 0101001111 1101101101 1011000101 01010011101 11011010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17