Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
COLD COMFORT
There is no comfort underneath the sun.
Youth turns to age; riches are quickly spent;
Pride breeds us pain, our pleasures punishment.
The very courage which we count upon
A single night of fever shall break down,
And love is slain by fear. Death last of all
Spreads out his nets and watches for our fall.
There is no comfort underneath the sun!
--When thou art old, O man, if thou wert proud
Be humble; pride will here avail thee not.
There is no courage which can conquer death.
Forget that thou wert wise. Nay, keep thy breath
For prayer, that so thy wisdom be forgot
And thou perhaps get pity of thy God.
Scheme | aBcdefggBhijjik |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 110 111100101 1111101101 11111010100 0101011101 0101110111 0111111111 11110101101 111100101 1111111111 1101110111 1111011101 0111111111 1111110101 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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