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

HE WOULD LEAD A BETTER LIFE
I am tired of folly, tired of my own ways,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXbcbadedeee
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 1110101 1110010100111 1001111101 0111111111 0111001111 1111001101 1000111100 1110011111 1111001111 1111110101 1101010010 1111110111 1001111101 1110111111 0011111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

i, my, would

Anaphora

if, i