This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxii that begins with:
To--day I was at Milan, in such thought
As pilgrims bring who at faith's threshold stand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabXcbcXdd
- 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: 0111101011 1101111111 1100010111 1101010011 11011101111 11010010101 0011101101 0101110101 1111001001 0111010111 1001011111 1100011111 1111000101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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