This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xvi that begins with:
Gods, what a moral! Yet in vain I jest.
The France which has been, and shall be again,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbXcdcddd
- 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: 1101010111 0111011001 00110010101 01010111001 1100010101 1001010100 1101011101 0011111100 1011010101 1101010111 01000111101 11110101001 1001010110 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
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