This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxix that begins with:
How strangely now I come, a man of sorrow,
Nor yet such sorrow as youth dreamed of, blind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaababcdcdee
- 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: 11011101010 1111011101 11110011111 1101010111 0101111101 1101010111 0101010101 0101001111 0111110111 0101111101 0110110001 1001010101 11110010101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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