This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xviii that begins with:
Therefore do thou at least arise and warn,
Not folded in thy mantle, a blind seer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbacadcdcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110111 1100110011 1100110111 10010111101 00111101011 1101010101 11101110100 1111110011 1100111111 11011100010 1101110111 11011111010 1101001101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; in, thy, for are repeated.
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