This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Viii that begins with:
I will sit down awhile in dalliance
With my dead life, and dream that it is young.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacXcXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010100 0111111001 110010011101 0111011101 1111010011 1101111100 1101011111 1001110101 1111101101 0111011111 0111010011 10110111100 1111111111 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet I
- Analysis of A Summer In Tuscany
- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Ix
