This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxiii that begins with:
Voltaire and Rousseau, these were thy twin priests,
Proud Mother Nature, on thy opening day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbXcdXdXX
- 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: 0110110111 11010111001 0101010101 0111010101 0101111111 0101110101 0011000101 01010111100 11010001001 1001010001 1011100100 1111111101 0110001101 1101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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; thy, of are repeated.
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