This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxi that begins with:
Yes, Italy is wise, a cultured prude,
Stored with all maxims of a statelier age;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabaXcXcdd
- 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: 1100010101 10110001001 1101011101 0011010111 0111011101 11011101001 1001010100 1001011101 1011110010 11000111001 1001011100 1111101101 1101110111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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