This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxviii that begins with:
Yet it is pitiful how friendships die,
Spite of our oaths eternal and high vows.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddabcXeXeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1001001101 1011010111 1111011100 1111010101 1100111100 1101001001001 1111011001 0101111100 111011010 1101011101 1101111010 0101010101 1101111101 0011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, and are repeated.
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