This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet X that begins with:
Whence is our pleasure in things beautiful?
We are not born with it, we do not know,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdadabb
- 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: 1011001100 1111001111 11000111001 11011101101 1011110101 1101010111 01101111101 1011110100 1101010011 1101011111 0101011100 1111010100 1001111111 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 Iii
- Analysis of A Dream
- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Vii
