Analysis of Love Rides Disguised

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



What name is his, thy knight's? Nay, ask it not.
If fate should hear thee, child, what griefs might come.
Love rides disguised. He fears a counterplot
For his own plot of joy in heathendom.
Restrained he goes; a single rose--red plume
Is all his badge. No blazon hath he wrought,
Device nor sign; his motto ``sum qui sum.''
Silent is he of Court and Camelot.
--Be wise, sweetheart, nor tempt time to mischance.
Love at his own hour shall his whole face show.
Oh, if thou hast not seen him, thou shalt see!
Undo shalt thou his helm with thy blest hands,
Nurse his tired head upon thy pitying knee.
Then shall he tell all, and thou all shalt know.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1111111111 11011101 11111101 0111010111 111111111 0111110111 101111010 11111111 11111011111 1111111111 0111111111 111010111001 1111101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 640
Words 124
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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