This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xv that begins with:
For thus it is. You flout at kings to--day.
To--morrow in your pride you shall stoop low... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXXacdcdee
- 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: 1100111101 0100111111 0011011111 11110011001 1011111111 1101011100 11011101 1111010011 1101000101 1101010111 10110011101 0011010101 1001111011 111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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