Analysis of The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. February
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
UNDER THE SPEAKER'S GALLERY
In all the comedy of human things
What is more mirthful than for those, who sit
Far from the great world's vain imaginings,
To mingle in its war of words and wit,
A listener here, when Greek meets Greek, Fox Pitt,
At question--time in the Queen's Parliament?
'Tis the arena of old Rome. Here meet
More than mere Dacians on mere slaughter bent.
Yonder and close to Mr. Speaker's chair,
Enfolding all things in a net of words,
Stands our first gymnast. Let the rest beware.
The Tory Stafford, with voice sweet as bird's,
Shall answer him anon, or bolder borne
And if luck favours, from the nether herds
A voice of patriot wrath shall rise in scorn,
Or even young Cassius blow his windy horn.
Scheme | X ABABBXXX CDCDEDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010100 0101001101 111111111 1101111 1100111101 01001111111 1101001100 1001011111 111111101 1001110101 11100111 11011010101 0101011111 110111101 011110101 01110011101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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