This is an analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxix by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

TO HER WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM
I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbaaccadecdec
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 0011101 1011110111 1101011011 1101110011 0101011101 1101000101 1011110100 1011000111 1011010101 1001111101 00111010101 10111101110 1111110111 0101010111 01010101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

your, his, strike

Anaphora

i, and