This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxvii that begins with:
The poets, every one, have sung of passion.
But which has sung of friendship, man with man?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaababacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010100111010 1111010101 11011101010 1001101101 0111010001 11110101110 1100110100 100101001010 1001011101 1111001001 1101011101 1111110111 1101100111 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- 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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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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