This is an analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lxvi by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN
Love, in thy youth, a stranger, knelt to thee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXcXacacac
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 0110010 1011010101 0111110111 1111011101 1101010001 1111111111 1111010111 1101010001 1111101101 1010001111 1111110011 1011011001 1101000111 0101011110 0110010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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