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

A DAY AT HAMPTON COURT
It is our custom, once in every year,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbccbcX acacdcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
  • Metre: 011101 00110101001 1111010111 1111011101 0101011111 0111010100 1011011101 1011010111 1101010100 0101010011 0101010111 1001110101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010011 1011011111 1011011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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