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

TO ONE NOW ESTRANGED
Why did you love me? Was it not enough…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXcdcddadaee
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 01101 1011110101 1011110111 1111010101 1011000100 1111011111 10111110100 1111011111 1011010111 1011010011 01011011111 0101010111 0101010111 1111011101 1111000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

and, your, if