This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxvi that begins with:
Youth is all valiant. He and I together,
Conscious of strength, and unreproved of wrong,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110111010 10011100001 11010101010 1101111101 0101111001 11110011110 1101110101 10011101110 1011001101 10011111101 1101001101 11011011101 1111110101 1011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxvii
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- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xix
